I am a Marcus fan, believer, acolyte, whatever it's called.
Please, please read "Meditations", to start your journey.
Imagine if you will that you are made king of the entire known universe. And instead of deciding that you are going to fuck all day and eat amazing food and drink stupendous wine, you decided to become a REAL MAN instead. Whatever it takes. Or REAL HUMAN, for the ladies, here.
That is Marcus. One of the best humans that ever lived, in my estimation.
Follow Marcus. He will point the way. And the more you follow Marcus, the more it will nicely dovetail into following Jesus' teachings, if you object to the idea of following someone other than Jesus. Logic is as logic does and the rules of the universe are chaos or love and you choose. Choose love.
Yes. Stoicism has been vilified in the Western mind as being inhuman, or uncaring, etc.
No one cares about you more than Jesus. The next one in line is Marcus. His message to you reaches across the stardust and its only goal is to make your life great.
If we can learn to see what we have as an amazing gift, whatever happens, we can be happy. If we instead allow those who wish to make our lives miserable to chain up to the ring on our nose, we're going to get pushed, pulled, and prodded. None of which is gonna be a fun time. Say NO. Claim your sovereignty. You own you. You decide how you think about anything. Or you and Jiminy Cricket (JC = Jesus Christ) on your shoulder, if that is how you roll (and I hope it is).
Sounds very interesting. I am very faithful and love God very much. I know my faith in Jesus grants me eternal life and I am grateful for that. I also believe in taking great ideas and blending them together. Sounds like reading some Marcus Aurelius would offer all sorts of gems.
Those who are faithful can often find themselves unwilling to listen to Marcus, because he is not Jesus.
Also a lot of Christians are focused on the afterlife.
What I am here to say is, you can have your afterlife, and you should be thinking about that with every move. But you can also make this life great. Zero suffering. Not that you will not experience crap. You will. But that you can train yourself to be bulletproof. That stuff will just bounce off. The sort of faith one sees with someone singing "What a friend I have in Jesus"... that can be your literal default position.
I have a purpose. I know what I control. I know how this ends. I know what I will do and what I won't do.
That's all. That's all that is needed. Remember, faithful one: no weapon formed against me shall prosper. For I will walk through the Valley of Death and will have no fear, because I did the homework (Marcus) and Jiminy Cricket is on my shoulder.
I assume it's a provocation to see if I am not one of those. That's cool. All assertions must survive the fire!
What I mean, in this ridiculous method of communication here, is that we must all become the best versions of what we can be. A real man is one that pushed himself to the end of his abilities, and did not break. And maintained his faith/stayed true to his direction. Or with careful thought changed his direction!
A "real man" is not what we see in movies. A real man is he who is seen with favor by the Lord. Righteous, or perhaps these days we could say "congruent". You say what you will do, and you do what you say you will do, and you're not a liar or a hypocrite. And hopefully you also know that pasta should be served al dente. Otherwise you are hopeless.
Feel free to probe the wounds, Tomas. You are on my team.
P.S. One warning I will provide is that his son was a total shitbird. Commodus. He is the "Caesar" of the movie Gladiator.
It in a way is another lesson.
You have the power over yourself. You can influence others, but not control them. If your own son wants to become a shitbird, you cannot actually prevent that.
I am a Marcus fan, believer, acolyte, whatever it's called.
Please, please read "Meditations", to start your journey.
Imagine if you will that you are made king of the entire known universe. And instead of deciding that you are going to fuck all day and eat amazing food and drink stupendous wine, you decided to become a REAL MAN instead. Whatever it takes. Or REAL HUMAN, for the ladies, here.
That is Marcus. One of the best humans that ever lived, in my estimation.
Follow Marcus. He will point the way. And the more you follow Marcus, the more it will nicely dovetail into following Jesus' teachings, if you object to the idea of following someone other than Jesus. Logic is as logic does and the rules of the universe are chaos or love and you choose. Choose love.
Ah, thank you Marvin! It's called being a stoic, right?
I will check the book out!
Yes. Stoicism has been vilified in the Western mind as being inhuman, or uncaring, etc.
No one cares about you more than Jesus. The next one in line is Marcus. His message to you reaches across the stardust and its only goal is to make your life great.
If we can learn to see what we have as an amazing gift, whatever happens, we can be happy. If we instead allow those who wish to make our lives miserable to chain up to the ring on our nose, we're going to get pushed, pulled, and prodded. None of which is gonna be a fun time. Say NO. Claim your sovereignty. You own you. You decide how you think about anything. Or you and Jiminy Cricket (JC = Jesus Christ) on your shoulder, if that is how you roll (and I hope it is).
Sounds very interesting. I am very faithful and love God very much. I know my faith in Jesus grants me eternal life and I am grateful for that. I also believe in taking great ideas and blending them together. Sounds like reading some Marcus Aurelius would offer all sorts of gems.
Thanks again Marvin!
This is why I mentioned Jesus.
Those who are faithful can often find themselves unwilling to listen to Marcus, because he is not Jesus.
Also a lot of Christians are focused on the afterlife.
What I am here to say is, you can have your afterlife, and you should be thinking about that with every move. But you can also make this life great. Zero suffering. Not that you will not experience crap. You will. But that you can train yourself to be bulletproof. That stuff will just bounce off. The sort of faith one sees with someone singing "What a friend I have in Jesus"... that can be your literal default position.
I have a purpose. I know what I control. I know how this ends. I know what I will do and what I won't do.
That's all. That's all that is needed. Remember, faithful one: no weapon formed against me shall prosper. For I will walk through the Valley of Death and will have no fear, because I did the homework (Marcus) and Jiminy Cricket is on my shoulder.
What's a "real man?"
I assume it's a provocation to see if I am not one of those. That's cool. All assertions must survive the fire!
What I mean, in this ridiculous method of communication here, is that we must all become the best versions of what we can be. A real man is one that pushed himself to the end of his abilities, and did not break. And maintained his faith/stayed true to his direction. Or with careful thought changed his direction!
A "real man" is not what we see in movies. A real man is he who is seen with favor by the Lord. Righteous, or perhaps these days we could say "congruent". You say what you will do, and you do what you say you will do, and you're not a liar or a hypocrite. And hopefully you also know that pasta should be served al dente. Otherwise you are hopeless.
Feel free to probe the wounds, Tomas. You are on my team.
P.S. One warning I will provide is that his son was a total shitbird. Commodus. He is the "Caesar" of the movie Gladiator.
It in a way is another lesson.
You have the power over yourself. You can influence others, but not control them. If your own son wants to become a shitbird, you cannot actually prevent that.
Tough lessons.