Sunday, November 17, 2024
Still Sour
Saturday, November 16, 2024
EVERYTHING IS CHANGE
“Meditate often on the swiftness with which all that exists and is coming into being is swept by us and carried away . For substance is like a river’s unending flow, its activities continually changing and causes infinitely shifting so that almost nothing at all stands still.
”—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.23
Marcus borrows this wonderful metaphor from Heraclitus, who said,“No man steps in the same river twice.” Because the river has changed, and so has the man. Life is in a constant state of change. And so are we. To get upset by things is to wrongly assume that they will last. To kick ourselves or blame others is grabbing at the wind. To resent change is to wrongly assume that you have a choice in the matter.
Everything is change. Embrace that. Flow with it.
♥️
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Frequent the simple ? JUST BEπ§
Can one honest conversation be the difference between sanity and chaos?
simple? Just wing it and Stay .. silence can be way louder than words. That's when souls start chatting. simple.✨
Luv ♥️ kavi
Thursday, November 7, 2024
HOW TO BE POWERFUL
“Don’t trust in your reputation, money , or position, but in the strength that is yours—namely , your judgments about the things that you control and don’t control. For this alone is what makes us free and unfettered, that picks us up by the neck from the depths and lifts us eye to eye with the rich and powerful.”
—EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.26.34–35
In a scene in Steven Pressfield’s classic novel about Alexander the Great, The Virtues of War, Alexander reaches a river crossing only to be confronted by a philosopher who refuses to move. “This man has conquered the world!” one of Alexander’s men shouts. “What have you done?” The philosopher responds, with complete confidence,“I have conquered the need to conquer the world.”
We do know that Alexander did clash with Diogenes the Cynic, a philosopher known for his rejection of what society prizes and, by extension, Alexander’s self-image. Just as in Pressfield’s fictional encounter, in Diogenes’s real confrontation with Alexander, the philosopher was more powerful than the most powerful man in the world—because, unlike him, Diogenes had fewer wants. They were able to look each other in the eye and see who really had control over himself, who had achieved the self-mastery required for real and lasting power.
You can have that too. It just means focusing inward on acquiring power rather than outward. As Syrus, himself a former slave, put it: “Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself!”
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Company mattersπ€
Wouldn't life be hilarious if our only companions were characters from our favorite books or Soaps π
Sluurps n drools π€€ππ€
❤️ kavi
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Commitments .
commitment plate. The drills and grills and the push throughs - the goal ahead ‘! . Fixating d gud idiot Hocus Focus π€❤️π₯πͺ
d dance b/w the GRIPSd Pulls and the stray LONGINGS.
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