Remembrer, memento mori

What stands in the way becomes the way. I've always found the best way to deal with tough times is to be just as tough. Do not shrink in the face of adversity, or turn a blind eye. or a deaf ear. We all have problems, we will continue to have them until the day we leave this world. Do not waste your time in wallow attack the problem so you don't waste what little prescious time we have waiting to fix something.

I like the old adage, of hate the sin but still love the sinner. We should try to be tolerant of others, with the views, their ideas, their personalities. We can let them into our lives, but within limits. We should be tough on ourselves and our working on our on selves. That is what we should be focusing on. I have done a good job at this for the most part. What about you? Join me on the journey.

 It's through the books that we read, where we can really talk to people who are no longer with us. Though they may be gone, but in the pages of a book, those persons we are reading about are alive and well, and their memory lives on.

The Stoics say Amor Fati, love your fate. Whatever will happen has already been planned already. How you respond to that action is all you can control.

We should always be asking ourselves as to what we are doing whether it be at the moment, with a task, with our lives, "is this necessary?" How much time is spent on things that are not necessary, that wastes our time, and takes away from living and being? Let's take this journey together.

In everything we do we must make beautiful choices. The choices we make not only define what we do, but who we are at that moment and for the future.

Decide to do one thing everyday, that is beneficial.

Marcus Aurelius' quote in Meditations: "The World is nothing but change. Our life is only perception." We are always changing, growing, learning. Are we the same person after that? Are we a brand new person, or are we the same person only wiser for having been through a certain event? I think we need to be fluid like the universe ever bending to the actions of the universe but strong enough to weather the storm and continue sailing on.

I am always careful with this rule, because people may take it the wrong way. But treating successes and failures the same way is important to understand. Never to high, never too low. Be grateful, happy, but understand that it won't last and we should be mindful of not letting external circumstances dictate our mindset or well being.