The Daily Stoic - Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Day 11
October 23rd - Show the Qualities your were made for.
"People aren't in awe of your sharp mind? So be it. But you have many other qualities you can't claim to have been deprived of at birth. Display then those qualities in your own power: honesty, dignity, endurance, chastity, contentment, frugality, kindness, freedom, persistence, avoiding gossip, and magnanimity."
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 5.5
Excerpt from Author:
"It's easy to blame our circumstances. One person curses that they weren't born taller, another that they're not smarter, with a different complexion, or born in a different country...
... But whatever your perceived deficits are, remember that there are positive qualities that you can develop that don't depend on genetic accidents"
"You have the choice to be truthful. You have the choice to be dignified. You can choose to endure. You can choose to be happy."
You have all these choices that you make every day, not just the actions you take, but the thoughts you create, the story you write in your head as you go through your day. Make conscious effort to recognise what thoughts don't serve you. Show people who you are with positive outgoing expressions, show gratitude for what you have, and for things that happen around you that you experience.
Gratitude is a powerful thing, because with the thought energy of gratitude we ripple out into the universe a message that responds with more of the same. Showing the world our positive attributes, especially that of gratitude for what we have, and who we are, rather than bemoaning the things we don't have, will better encourage you, and those around you, to see things in a more positive light. Doing this will create a world for you where you see good things happening around you, influenced by your thoughts, rather than seeing bad things happening /to/ you, caused, you might think, by the universe conspiring against you.
Mantra: "The universe conspires in my favour"
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