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All things are accomplished by Zeus, and nothing comes to pass without him.
Cleanthes · Hymn to Zeus · paraphrase
What it means today

The Stoic cosmos is ordered, not random. Trusting the order does not mean doing nothing; it means not wasting energy on despair about what is already ordered.

Try this todayWhere you are fighting the order of things today, try trusting it instead.
Today’s questionWhat would change if I trusted the order of things?
#order#trust#cosmos
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