“Washing dishes is at the same time a means and an end. It is a means of cleaning and also a means of practicing mindfulness. Just as we need to keep our physical environment clean in order to avoid the spread of disease, we also need to keep our mental…

You will ever remain a slave as long as you do not disentangle your relationship with the externals (stuff that you cannot control). The only thing that you can really control is your choices. The externals are many, basically everything. Your health, your wealth, the health of the people you…

The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us. — Ward Farnsworth All right, it’s time to get to the Stoic basics, again, cause they are so easy, so painfully easy, forgotten. …

“And this is what we mean when we say the wise man is self-content; he is so in the sense that he can do without friends, not that he desires to do without them When I speak of his being ‘able’ to do this, what I am saying in fact…

Just give it to me! Give me the damn advice and get on with it! AGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! I imagined Cartman from South Park. It kind of feels like that sometimes. We are so hurried all the time. It’s 8:18 am for me as I write this. And, at precisely 8:30 am…

“If you wish to be a writer, write.”― Epictetus You are what you do daily. And that is wonderful news. I didn’t really understand what this meant until today. Let me tell you about it cause I’m sure you don’t really understand it either. I want to be a lot…

I’ve been using Instagram a lot these last couple of days. A constant, incessant, punishing whip that pushes trash through my unwilling mouth every 10 minutes or so. It’s disgusting. I woke up rather pessimistic about the internet, there is just too much about everything here. So much information that…

Not caring about what other people think about you is not the same thing as not caring about other people. Whenever we think about not caring about what other people think about us, we usually think in terms of something like: “I don’t care about what people think about my…

What is important? To raise your life high above chance occurrences, and to remember that it is a human life — so that if you are fortunate, you know this will not last long; or if you are unfortunate, you know that you aren’t really, if you don’t think you…