Guided Contemplation - Embrace Your Insignificance
06/12/24 • 8 min
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A guided contemplation to help you reflect on a powerful idea from Stoicism: the notion that our insignificance isn't a bad thing.
This idea can be liberating and transformative, guiding us toward greater peace, humility, and—surprisingly—purpose.
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☀️ Start your next 10 days like a Stoic with morning routines that take only 10 minutes to complete.
Free Stoic 10-day series: https://whatisstoicism.com/10days
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A guided contemplation to help you reflect on a powerful idea from Stoicism: the notion that our insignificance isn't a bad thing.
This idea can be liberating and transformative, guiding us toward greater peace, humility, and—surprisingly—purpose.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Freedom Is Having A Mind Superior To Injury
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"Liberty is having a mind superior to injury, a mind that makes itself the only source from which its pleasures spring, that separates itself from all external things, avoiding the unquiet life of one who fears everybody’s laughter, everybody’s tongue. For if there is anyone who can offer an insult, who cannot?"
—Seneca, On the Constancy of the Wise Man 19.2
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It’s a common disruption to our tranquility: putting someone else’s life on a pedestal compared to our own.
We envy the apparent prosperity and happiness of others while losing sight of the things in our own lives that we should be quite content with.
The full story of someone else’s life can’t be known. Their inner world isn’t visible to us. To have their life, we’d need to inherit everything about them. Would we really be willing to take that risk?
To help regain your freedom from this kind of disruption, I’ve constructed a short Stoic exercise for you to practice.
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