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Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations · paraphrase
What it means today

The thing that is happening is already part of the whole. Resisting it does not change it; it only spends your energy. Acceptance is not surrender; it is the first step toward using what has arrived.

Try this todayTake one thing you are resisting today and treat it, for one hour, as if it were exactly what you needed.
Today’s questionWhat if this thing I resist is actually part of what I need?
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