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.
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.