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Renew Your Focus On, And Appreciation Of, The Present

Season 1 Episode 140 Published 2 years, 5 months ago

"The present moment is enough for you,” Marcus Aurelius told himself in his Meditations.

As Pierre Hadot wrote in his book Philosophy as a Way of Life, this had a double meaning:

It is enough to keep you busy; you have no need to think about anything else; and
It is enough to make you happy; there is no need to seek for anything else.

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