Very wise words

A lot of people taking the wrong message from this... Don't look back 6 months if everything is shit now. Look forward to 6 months from now when life will be better.

5 months ago I went through my first break up and I thought life would never be good again. Now I'm finally starting to feel better and see the positives in life again.

Fuck no

Or they are just really bad?

Coined and minted!

For the second I don't agree with Marcus In politics you don't need to be mindful humans

Sounds either very wholesome or like you've finally released your inner serial killer

Was his wife really cheating on him?

I've been on Reddit since 2005. This was the first thing I screenshotted and saved in all that time

Wow, really motivating for Russians and Ukrainians now 😵

His solutions for dealing with the Germans were pretty final...

Powerful statement guaranteed!♂️✈️

I think this is bullshit is not the same as I don't understand it.

It might in fact, be bullshit.

And if you have to ad hom like that, I have even less reason to believe you have any other substance.

I read that a year ago and I’m definitely in a different space. It’s more fucked up, more shitty, more depressing and more agonising.

The fact that you say this means that you do not yet understand Stoic philosophy. Because you absolutely do have the ability to control your thoughts. Learning to manage and redirect your instant reactions is the object of this philosophy.

So happy for you! Really working on this right now for myself

Top Marcus Aurelius quotes https://youtu.be/yosoVq8Nnig

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> don't bother trying to be nice to those people

I don't think it's saying that; it says to accept their nature but says nothing about giving up on being compassionate. I think 10 is necessary before you can do 9: before you can treat people with an invincible kindness you have to accept that you have no other action (as the other action is tyrannical).

I think stoicism fundamentally is about the process not outcome: we're not kind because we want to change people (outcome), we're kind because that's the only course of action we accept as legitimate. Yes, we might change people, but that's not why we do it.

Appreciate it. Hope things get better for you too.

Okay fair enough and either way, sorry it happened

He is so meta. Thank you for sharing.

I needed this

Needed that. The final frontier is self regulation.

I'm not sure he does treat the west any different - he treats people that don't lick his boots different.

He has ordered the murders of his own citizens. Litvinenko, Anna Politkovskaya, Sergei and Yulia Skripal spring to mind. Then there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_Russia