the good life
Happiness is fragile if it depends on chance. Make it sturdier. Find it in things you control - keeping promises, doing work you’re proud of, staying healthy, learning something new, showing up to practice. When it rests on your effort, it cannot be taken away. It grows deeper and nourishes you.
Stoic Philosophysubstack.com“My argument with so much of psychoanalysis, is the preconception that suffering is a mistake, or a sign of weakness, or a sign even of illness, when in fact, possibly the greatest truths we know have come out of people's suffering; that the problem is not to undo suffering or to wipe it off the face of the earth but to make it inform our lives,... See more
The Wisdom Letter #253
A few visuals from my growing collection 🫶
Many of these now live inside a structured, classroom-ready SEL framework.
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instagram.comEach chance we get isn't just ours to use, but ours to transform into chances for others.
@suleikajaouad is living every day like it’s her *first* ❤️ Happy birthday to our awe-inspiring friend.
#Colbert #HBD
instagram.comThe acceleration of contemporary life also plays a role in this lack of being. The society of laboring and achievement is not a free society. It generates new constraints. Ultimately, the dialectic of master and slave does not yield a society where everyone is free and capable of leisure, too. Rather, it leads to a society of work in which the... See more
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