the antidote to despair
You’ll have a better grasp of the harmony if you keep on going back to it.
“When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstances, revert at once to yourself, and don’t lose the rhythm more than you can help. You’ll have a better grasp of the harmony if you keep on going back to it.” - Marcus Aurelius
There are often days when life is just not so fun. Days when effort feels too much- yet not enough, when plans fail, when disappointment invades your heart and you feel that none of this is worth sustaining, that none of what you like is worth doing anymore. In these moments, it’s easy to believe you’ve lost your way, that perhaps you’ve become weak- when in fact you’ve only deviated from the basics. Marcus Aurelius found a way to remind himself. He wrote,
“It stares you in the face. There’s no role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.”
What rescues you in these moments is not a new worldview or a sudden revelation. It’s sober existence and returning. Returning to…
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