This book is a good introduction to Stoicism. It is almost a manual on life, but not quite. At the very least, it details the journey of a traveler who has examined the road/s. Before reading the excerpts, here is a short video. Stoicism, understood properly, is a cure for a disease. The disease in…
Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness All can know good as good only because there is evil. The highest good is like water. Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive. It flows in places people reject and so is like the Tao. Better…
You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world, Arjuna, as a man established within himself – without selfish attachments, and alike in success and defeat. For yoga is…