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Showing posts with label Stoic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stoic. Show all posts
Wednesday, 17 May 2023

Pearls of Umar ibn Al-Khattab (3)

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“ Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by Allah’s decree. If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never...
Wednesday, 5 April 2023

ChatGPT - Stoicism and Islam - common principles?

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Yesterday, I had a good conversation with ChatGPT exploring Islam Inc. as a way to explain Islam from the perspective of a Silicon Valley co...
Monday, 13 March 2023

Pearls of Umar ibn Al-Khattab (2)

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“Remind yourselves of Allah, for it is a cure. Do not remind yourselves of the people, for it is a disease.” “A man should be like a child ...
Thursday, 9 February 2023

Pearls of Umar ibn Al-Khattab (1)

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The best way to defeat someone is to beat him at politeness. Do not grieve over what has passed unless it makes you work harder for what is ...
Wednesday, 18 January 2023

Imam al-Ghazali on Time Management

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Your time should not be without any structure, such that you occupy yourself arbitrarily with whatever comes along. Rather, you must take ac...
Tuesday, 8 November 2022

You're not so perfect either, consider your failings too

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Whenever you take offense at someone's wrongdoing, immediately turn to your own similar failings, such as seeing money as good, or pleas...
Thursday, 27 October 2022

Just do it, even when you feel lazy and you don't want to

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  Anything that must yet be done, virtue can do with courage and promptness. For anyone would call it a sign of foolishness for one to under...
Tuesday, 25 October 2022

Want less, want nothing = have everything

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  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...
Wednesday, 19 October 2022

Don't sweat the small stuff

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  It is essential for you to remember that the attention you give to any action should be in due proportion to its worth, for then you won&#...
Monday, 17 October 2022

Don't be miserable in advance

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  It's ruinous for the soul to be anxious about the future and miserable in advance of misery, engulfed by anxiety that the things it de...
Wednesday, 12 October 2022

Cut out the unnecessary, simplification leads to tranquility

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  It is said that if you would have peace of mind, busy yourself with little. But wouldn't a better saying be do what you must and as re...
Tuesday, 11 October 2022

Only fools rush in

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  A good person is invincible, for they don't rush into contests in which they aren't the strongest. If you want their property, tak...
Monday, 10 October 2022

The buck stops with you, your mind

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  For nothing outside my reasoned choice can hinder or harm it -- my reasoned choice calone can do this to itself.  If we would lean this wa...
Friday, 7 October 2022

Turn your obstacle into an advantage

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  Just as the nature of rational things has given to each person their rational powers, so it also gives us this power -- just as nature tur...
Thursday, 6 October 2022

Be consistent in virtue

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This can be swiftly taught in very few words: virtue is the only good; there is no certain good without virtue; and virtue resides in our no...
Wednesday, 5 October 2022

Blow your own nose, get active in your own rescue

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We cry to God Almighty, how can we escape this agony? Fool, don't you have hands? Or could it be God forgot to give you a pair? Sit and ...
Friday, 30 September 2022

Control and Choice

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The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my...
Thursday, 29 September 2022

Stick with just the facts, don't get carried away

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Don't tell yourself anything more than what the initial impressions report. It's been reported to you that someone is speaking badly...
Wednesday, 28 September 2022

Start with where the world is

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Do now what nature demands of you. Get right to it if that's in your power. Don't look around to see if people will know about it. D...
Tuesday, 27 September 2022

There is always more room to maneuver than you think

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Apply yourself to thinking through difficulties -- hard times can be softened, tight squeezes widened, and heavy loads made lighter for thos...