Today's Stoic journal prompt
One line from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus or Seneca, copied word for word from a named translation, and one question to write about. Five minutes is enough. Your answers stay in this browser.
Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2.1 (trans. George Long) · read it in the source ↗
Who are you likely to find difficult today? Write one way you could stay calm when it happens.
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