1 Stoic a DayOne idea. One minute.

Home / Today / Epictetus

Today’s Stoic
With regard to whatever objects give you delight, remember to say: what is the nature of this? It is mortal, and will not be yours always.
Epictetus · Enchiridion · paraphrase
What it means today

Delight that forgets impermanence is the seed of grief. If you enjoy something while knowing it is mortal, you can hold it lightly — and its loss will not undo you.

Try this todayEnjoy one thing today while quietly remembering it will not always be yours.
Today’s questionAm I holding the things I love lightly, or clutching them?
#impermanence#delight#detachment
XFacebookWhatsAppShare today’s Stoic

Related Stoic ideas

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only to what he does himself, that it may be just and pure.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations

← Back to today’s Stoic