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Eckhart Aurelius Hughes wrote: ↑January 12th, 2023, 10:37 pm This is a discussion forum topic for the November 2022 Philosophy Book of the Month, In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All.Accept everything or anything that life throws at you and embrace it as a lesson that makes you better. Don't start whinning about it but instead grow as a rose.
"The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
- Marcus Aurelius
By quickly and unconditionally accepting unchangeable reality, we best make the best of it, turning seeming obstacles to our advantage.
Only by fully and unconditionally accepting the proverbial cards we are dealt (i.e. only by fully and unconditionally accepting that which cannot be changed) are we able to best play those cards.
By wasting even the smallest bit of time, energy, or resources resenting that which we know we cannot change, we thereby absolutely cannot play those proverbial cards the best we can, since our time, energy, and resources are all finite.
What's spent on one is taken from the other.
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