210112 What I learned in my studies this morning

From The Daily Stoic: 

 

Practice daily focus. Use this formula to help you guide your thoughts each day. 

In the morning, remind yourself to divide the world into that which is up to you and that which is not up to you and to place importance on the former. 

In the afternoon, remind yourself that, of all things in the universe, only your power of choice is truly yours and can never be taken from you. 

In the evening, remember that anything may be taken from you at any time . . . save for that power of choice. 

As you go to sleep, remember that you will do this again tomorrow. 

Today's Tao:

This is called perception of the nature of things. 

Soft and weak overcome hard and strong.

From Eric Hoffer, Part III, Unifying Agents:

Hatred 

When you act upon hate, harming others, you reinforce that hate. Being kind to them, blunts the hate. 

What do you hear day-to-day on social media? Forgive and understand? Or take vengeance and persecute? 

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.

(The True Believer, XIV-70)