A piece of wisdom from
February 7, 2023 · Tuesday
The quote
“The ancestor cleans through you. You clean for seven generations forward and seven generations back. That is the math of the family tree.”
— traditional Hawaiian teaching · Hoʻoponopono
The concept
Stoicism
A 2000-year-old operating system for hard days.
Stoicism is the most-tested philosophy in human history, practised by Roman emperors, freed slaves, and quietly today by anyone reading a book by Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, or Seneca. At its centre: a brutal clarity about what is, and is n…
A practice for today
When the next difficult feeling arrives, ask yourself: the lesson of Stoicism. A 2000-year-old operating system for hard days.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 7.7
मत्तः परतरं नान्यत्किञ्चिदस्ति धनञ्जय। मयि सर्वमिदं प्रोतं सूत्रे मणिगणा इव॥
“There is nothing higher than I, O Dhananjaya. All this is strung on me as pearls on a thread.”
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