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“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
What it means today

An insult only wounds if you agree that it should. The sting lives in your judgment of the event, not in the event itself. Refuse the story of being wronged and there is nothing left to hurt you.

Try this todayWhen someone offends you today, say to yourself, "I do not have to be injured by this."
Today’s questionAm I hurt by what happened, or by the meaning I gave it?
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