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‘Walk With Me ’ is a meditative film about a community of Zen Buddhist monks and nuns who have dedicated their lives to mastering the art of mindfulness with their …

My hut lies in the middle of a dense forest; Every year the green ivy grows longer. No news of the affairs of men, Only the occasional song of a woodcutter. The sun shines and I …

Wild beasts flee from the dangers they see - and when they have fled they are calm. – Seneca

Remember: Matter. How tiny your share of it. Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it. – Marcus Aurelius

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him. – Epictetus

The best way to learn is by teaching. – Unknown

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on the fighting the old, but on building the new. – Socrates

By: Andy Weir You were on your way home when you died. It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It …

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius

Leben wie ein Baum, einzeln und frei doch brüderlich wie ein Wald, das ist unsere Sehnsucht. Nazım Hikmet

Einfache Lügen haben es schwerer als komplizierte Wahrheiten

Umwege erhöhen die Ortskenntnisse. Manchmal muss man vom Weg abkommen um auf der Strecke zu bleiben. Udo Jürgens Mitten im Leben

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Hilary Cooper

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve …

When things go wrong as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill, When the funds are low and the debts are high And you want to smile, but you have to …

Interestingly, “The Book of Mu” cites the following as a waka poem written by an old Japanese Zen Master. When your bow is broken and your arrows are exhausted, There, …

The best revenge against your enemy is not to become like your enemy. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.6

Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day. The one who puts the finishing touches on their …

The prisoners of infinite choice Have built their house In a field below the wood And are at peace. It is autumn, and dead leaves On their way to the river Scratch like birds at …

I wonder what feelings inspire a man to complain of 'having nothing to do.' I am happiest when I have nothing to distract me and I am completely alone. . . . Even if a man has not …

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because …

Since I came to Cold Mountain how many thousand years have passed accepting my fate I fled to the woods to dwell and gaze in freedom no one visits the cliffs forever hidden by …

When I am in need of a sense of perspective, I often turn to the poetry of Ryokan (1758-1831) or Wang Wei (c. 701-761). Ryokan was a Zen monk who lived much of his life in a hut in …

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. – Wayne Dyer

Having no destination I am never lost. – Ikkyu 1394-1481

(n.) (v. phr.) “to repair with gold”; the art of repairing pottery with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that piece is more beautiful for having been broken …

Freedom is secured not by the fulfilling of men’s desires, but by the removal of desire. – Epictetus, The Discourses

You can’t save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly. – Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. – Maya Angelou

If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters — don’t wish to seem knowledgeable. And if some regard you as important, distrust yourself. …

Once there was a young man walking in the street, he was 25 years old and was lost in his thoughts. He was thinking about the future, about his goals, about his purpose in his …

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, …

All Is Well In The Great Mess · Thich Nhat Hanh - Please Call Me by My True Names Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow — even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second …

We have a tendency to think in terms of doing and not in terms of being. We think that when we’re not doing anything, we’re wasting our time. But that’s not true. Our time is …

No coming, no going, No after, no before, I hold you close, I release you to be free; I am in you And you are in me. – Thich Nhat Hanh, *11 October 1926 - †22 January 2022

Sometimes the scariest bridge to burn is the one between you and the person you thought you were. – Tanya Markul

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. – Aristotle

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius

The new year is coming to an end and for next year I already have a little surprise for all German speaking visitors: Ryan Holiday’s The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on …

In a chaotic modern world seemingly designed to burn everyone out, slowing down is a profoundly positive act of rebellion. – Unknown Author

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Ergib dich nicht der Stimmung dessen, der dich beleidigt, und folge nicht dem Weg, auf den er dich schleppen möchte. – Marcus Aurelius

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the moment.” – Junia …

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; …

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced …

“No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.” -— Seneca, …

“Do you want to improve the world? I don’t think it can be done. The world is sacred. It can’t be improved. If you tamper with it, you’ll ruin it. If you treat …

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” „Nicht wer wenig hat, sondern wer viel wünscht, ist arm.“ – Seneca

Everyone should sit in meditation for twenty minutes everyday - unless they are too busy; then they should sit for an hour. – Zen Proverb

Heute habe ich Marion Giebels Übersetzung von Senecas “Das Leben ist kurz” hinzugefügt. Der Text ist auch über den Menüpunkt “Stoicism” erreichbar.

If you can keep your head when all about you        Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,    If you can trust yourself when all men …

Today I have added Marcus Aurelius’ “Meditations” , translated by Gregory Hays. You can also access it via the menu bar in the “Stoicism” section.

Today I have added Seneca’s “On the Shortness of Life” , translated by C.D.N. Costa. You can also access it via the menu bar in the “Stoicism” …

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” – Marcus Aurelius

“Don’t waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people—unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful. You’ll be too preoccupied …

“Worry is a misuse of the imagination.” – Dan Zadra

All Is Well In The Great Mess · Ich muss dem Tag keinen Plan mehr geben Kulturelles Feature „Ich muss dem Tag keinen Plan mehr geben“ Oder: einfach leben! Von Cornelia Beuel Anne …

“The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.” – Li Po

All Is Well In The Great Mess · Edward Espe Brown - The Little Duck Now we’re ready to look at something pretty special. It is a duck, riding the ocean a hundred feet beyond the …

“Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, nothing is perfect.” – Tenets of Wabi Sabi

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anaïs Nin

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer

„Ziehe dich in dich selbst zurück, so viel du kannst; verkehre mit denen, die dich besser machen, und erstatte solchen den Zutritt, die du besser machen kannst.“ – Seneca

“You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with magic. True power is …

“If you aim at great things, you must not allow yourself inclination toward the attainment of other things, however slight; but you must entirely quit some of them, and for …

“Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?” – Epicurus

“In the end what matters most is How well did you live How well did you love How well did you learn to let go” – Unknown Author “In the end, only three …

Thomas Jefferson often took the opportunity to advise his children, grandchildren, and others on matters of personal conduct. Over the years he developed a list of axioms for …

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – R. Buckminster …

“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.” – Marcus …

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, …

“My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes; most of which never happened.” – Michel de Montaigne

“A rock thrown in the air. It loses nothing by coming down, gained nothing by going up.” – Marcus Aurelius

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.” – Seneca

“We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.” – Seneca

“Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?” – Epicurus

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation. – Terence McKenna

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. – Aesop

It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. – Seneca

Things are not as they seem, nor are they otherwise. – Zen proverb

Zhuangzi was one of China’s greatest thinkers. His ancient parables are legendary, designed to free you from society’s damaging constraints and recover your natural spontaneity. …

You have just completed assessing yourself with 100 phrases. Our systems have compared your-self-ratings to those of thousands of other people. You are being compared to men and …

The Meditations, by a Roman emperor who died in a plague named after him, has much to say about how to face fear, pain, anxiety and loss. A great article from Donald Robertson, …

“Some day my prince will come.…” Good old Walt Disney. Well, that may have worked out for Snow White. Back here on Earth, it’s a recipe for disappointment. In flesh-and-blood …

Agreeable/Assertive Select Relevant Items Please select habits that apply to you. You can select up to 10 habits, and are required to select at least 2. Be over-inclusive. Don’t …

Emotional Stability/Low Stress Tolerance Select Relevant Items Please select habits that apply to you. You can select up to 10 habits, and are required to select at least 2. Be …

Conscientiousness/Carelessness Select Relevant Items Please select habits that apply to you. You can select up to 10 habits, and are required to select at least 2. Be …

Openness/Traditionalism Select Relevant Items Please select habits that apply to you. You can select up to 10 habits, and are required to select at least 2. Be over-inclusive. …

Extraversion/Introversion Select Relevant Items Please select habits that apply to you. You can select up to 10 habits, and are required to select at least 2. Be over-inclusive. …

Change Personality is reasonably stable over the lifespan, and is also powerfully influenced by hereditary or genetic factors. Despite this, personality can broaden or even …

Impact of Personality Traits There are advantages and disadvantages to each trait, particularly at the extremes. Extremely sociable, extraverted people can be dominant and …

Stability Stability, the second higher-order trait, can be further broken down into three sub-traits: Conscientiousness (the tendency to be orderly and industrious), Emotional …

Plasticity Plasticity, the first higher-order trait, can be further broken down into two sub-traits: Extraversion (the tendency to be enthusiastic and dominant) and Openness (the …

Background Knowledge To complete the following exercise, there are a number of things that are useful to know. (you may have encountered this information previously if you have …

Completing the Exercise 2 On many pages, you will not be able to successfully click Next or Previous unless you have provided a minimum of necessary text. If you do not, you will …

Completing the Exercise 1 During this exercise, you will be presented with a series of pages either providing you with information, or asking you to describe aspects of your …

This program has been designed to allow you to do an in-depth analysis of some of the negative aspects or faults of your personality. It is the partner program to the virtues …

Welcome to the Present Authoring: Faults component of the Self-Authoring suite. This exercise has been designed to allow you to do an in-depth analysis of some of the negative …

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At this point you have completed the past authoring or autobiography exercise. People are much healthier and more hopeful and less depressed and more productive if they have truly …

How did this experience come about? Was it primarily positive or negative? Were you helped or hurt by other people? What role did you play during this time period to shape the …

You wrote about a number of experiences in the previous pages. They are all listed below. Choose the ten experiences that were most important in shaping your life. Each of these …

Please outline how this experience has shaped your life and contributed to making you who you are today. How has the experience changed your view of other people? Of the world? …

Please describe in detail up to six significant experiences that happened to you during this period of your life. You can describe positive and negative experiences. We recommend …

Please divide your experiences into seven time periods that represent your life so far: Epoch 1 Epoch Title (100 chars): Epoch 2 Epoch Title (100 chars): Epoch 3 Epoch Title (100 …

General Description First, you will be asked to divide your life into seven different time periods or “epochs.” These epochs can be as short or as long as you want, depending on …

Attitude While Writing If you are rushed, or distracted, or bored, then you are not doing the writing in a manner that will benefit you. If you are writing about important events, …

Sleeping It may be best to do this exercise, as well as the present and future authoring exercises, over several days. The research done on the relationship between writing and …

Writing Why write? Writing is a sophisticated form of thinking. Thinking prepares you to perceive properly and act intelligently. If you don’t think things through, …

Memory, Emotion and Stress Your mind is always trying to determine the level of danger presented by your environment. When bad things happen to you, your mind and your body react …

Completing the Exercise 2 On many pages, you will not be able to successfully click Next or Previous unless you have provided a minimum of necessary text. If you do not, you will …

Completing the Exercise 1 Welcome to the Past Authoring (Autobiography) component of the self-authoring suite. This exercise is designed to help you develop a clearer sense of your …

Welcome to the Past Authoring / Autobiography component of the Self-Authoring suite. This exercise is designed to help you develop a clearer sense of your past, by writing your own …

Book 4 1. Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces—to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own …

Book 3 IN CARNUNTUM 1. Not just that every day more of our life is used up and less and less of it is left, but this too: if we live longer, can we be sure our mind will still be …

I have experimented with other exercises, but journaling is my primary Stoic exercise, although I journal a variety of ways. One of the better starting points (not historically …

In what order should I write the programs? Our users each have their own experiences, circumstances, and needs. Some people benefit from doing the Past Authoring exercise first. …

Future Authoring Present Authoring - Virtues Past Authoring Present Authoring - Faults

HANDBOOK 1.1. Some things are within our power, while others are not. Within our power are opinion, motivation, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever is of our own doing; not …

Was ich habe, will ich nicht verlieren, aber wo ich bin, will ich nicht bleiben, aber die ich liebe, will ich nicht verlassen, aber die ich kenne, will ich nicht mehr sehen, aber …

Wer noch grün ist, kann wachsen. Wer sich bereits reif wähnt, beginnt schon zu faulen. – René Borbonus

“The wise man is consistent in both his thoughts and actions.” – Donald Robertson, How to think like a Roman emperor</b

“Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.” – Epictetus

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

Want to build-up resilience and will power? The stoics offer a daily dose of subjecting yourselves to the worst-case scenarios to your troubles. It’s a simple methodology where you …

Everyday, think as you wake up, ‘today I am fortunate to have woken up, I am alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to …

In everything that you do, pause and ask yourself if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives you of this. – Marcus Aurelius

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we …

Sales of works by ancient Roman Marcus Aurelius have seen a sharp uptick in recent months. According to Penguin Random House, print sales of Meditations are up 28% for the first …

Book 2 ON THE RIVER GRAN, AMONG THE QUADI 1. When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, …

A New Translation, with an Introduction, by Gregory Hays. THE MODERN LIBRARY NEW YORK. Book 1 DEBTS AND LESSONS 1. MY GRANDFATHER VERUS Character and self-control. 2. MY FATHER …

This text was first published in Emerson’s Essays collection in 1841. Emerson drew on his journals of 1832-40 for a number of ideas and passages he wrote here. Over the years, he …

“External things are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.” – Marcus Aurelius

“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps …

“Only time can heal what reason cannot.” – Seneca

Die Selbstbetrachtungen von Marc Aurel sind als kostenloses Reclam Hörbuch auf YouTube verfügbar . Gelesen von Winfried Frey.

Warum sind wir so geizig mit unserem Geld, gehen aber verschwenderisch mit unserer Lebenszeit um? In seinem Traktat „Das Leben ist kurz“ plädiert Seneca für einen …

“The life we are given isn’t short but we make it so; we’re not ill provided but we are wasteful of life.” – Seneca

“Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions – not outside.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Without going out-of-doors, one may know all under heaven; Without peering through windows, one may know the Way of heaven. The farther one goes, The less one knows. For …

“Remember that no one loses any other life than this which he is living, nor lives any other than this which he is losing.” – Marcus Aurelius

“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.” – Michel de Montaigne

“Loss is nothing but change, and change is nature’s delight.” – Marcus Aurelius

“It’s impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows” – Epictetus

“You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t control. These things are not …

This site I made solely to please myself. I have in the past burnt much of my creative output in garden bonfires in a quest for simplicity and less baggage, but now it seems …