The Daily Stoic - Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Day 7
October 29th - Marks of the Good Life.
"You have proof in the extent of your wandering that you never found the art of living anywhere - not in logic, nor in wealth, fame, or in any indulgence. Nowhere. Where is it then? in doing what human nature demands. How is a person to do this? By having principles be the source of desire and action. What principles? Those to do with good and evil, indeed in the belief that there is no good for a human being except what creates justice, self-control, courage and freedom, and nothing evil except what destroys these things."
-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.1.(5)
Authors note;
"As Viktor Frankl points out in 'Man's search for meaning', it is not our question to ask (What is the meaning of life? Why was I born?). Instead, it is 'we' who are being asked the question. It's our lives that are the answer.
No amount of travel or reading or clever sages can tell you what you want to know. Instead, it is 'you' who must find the answer in your actions, in living the good life - by embodying the self-evident principles of justice, self-control, courage, freedom, and abstaining from evil."
Something I've learned a lot in the last few years is how important to a man his purpose is. If you have no purpose, you have nothing to strive for, work for, or to cast into the future your energy. If you find purpose in things that you carry discipline of principled action into - justice, self-control, courage, and freedom - then your life will be well lived. Do things on your terms, with everything at stake for your, and your childrens, future.
Build, share, teach, learn. Do all things with integrity to yourself and others. Do not be a destroyer of good things, but lay aside the evil that does not serve you or others.
I think we're collectively doing this, and being able to do so with confidence, with Bitcoin. We're casting aside the theft, violence and building something incredible for our children, and theirs, in the face of everything that wants to destroy us and them.
Shevacai
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