Learning to live in sobriety.
Redmayne
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Learning to live in sobriety.
'When you wake up each morning tell yourself that: The people I deal with today will be arrogant, ungrateful, meddling, dishonest, surly and jealous. They are like that because they do not know the difference between good and evil,' Marcus Aurelius.
Good in terms of Stoic philosophy refers to the Stoic virtues of exercising practical wisdom, temperance (self control), courage, in your dealings with others and yourself, and to be just in your dealings with your environment.
Evil means to act shamefully towards others or yourself, sometimes both at the same time.
Of course this sort of behaviour doesn't apply to everyone. Nevertheless I have found that this sort of behaviour often presents itself in those who have stopped drinking but failed to enlarge their spiritual lives by making progress in this area to the detriment of both themselves and their recovery...
But knowledge of this has enhanced mine.
Good in terms of Stoic philosophy refers to the Stoic virtues of exercising practical wisdom, temperance (self control), courage, in your dealings with others and yourself, and to be just in your dealings with your environment.
Evil means to act shamefully towards others or yourself, sometimes both at the same time.
Of course this sort of behaviour doesn't apply to everyone. Nevertheless I have found that this sort of behaviour often presents itself in those who have stopped drinking but failed to enlarge their spiritual lives by making progress in this area to the detriment of both themselves and their recovery...
But knowledge of this has enhanced mine.
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