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You can use this, you know,
no one would have chosen this no one is that crazy type your life disrupted to be out of work to lose money or people you love to see institutions taxed beyond their capacities to see people scared or frustrated but this pandemic is a classic there. It is situation. It's here. It happened. Now what we should think about the advice from the writer Jorge Luis Borgess a writer. He said and I believe generally all persons.
Us think that whatever happens to him or her as a resource all things have been given to us for a purpose in an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations. Our misfortunes are embarrassments all is given to us as raw material as clay so that we may shape our art you have the power to do this. We all do we don't have the power to start the v-shaped economic recovery. We don't have the power to create more ventilators or
Magically fix the Regulatory and government agencies that fail to stop or respond properly to this crisis. We lack tragically the power to resuscitate the victims who this virus is claimed to decide to use this as raw material to learn from it to transform it to find an opportunity within it. Yes that remains in our power. Everything is material we can use it all just as issues. We had with our parents become lessons that we teach our children or an injury that lays its up in bed becomes.
a reason to reflect on where our life is going or a problem at work inspires us to invent a new product strike out on our own so to can this crisis be something that allows us to move forward and grow a great artist uses what happens to them or just said a strong stomach Marcus Aurelius said digest what it eats a blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it that can happen here too if you choose you seized the power that you have
Have be the painter of your own picture the sculptor of your own life. The only way forward. It's the only thing you can do and that's that still look idea of a more fatty that we can use what's happened to us that we can love it that we can Embrace and accept and find power and meaning in Our Fate. That's why we make the Amor Fati coin here in the daily stoic store as well as the Amor Fati pendant necklace a more. Fatty. Robert Greene said is a power so immense it's
It's hard to Fathom and he's right to me. It's the perfect Remedy or coping mechanism for the reality this pandemic. We can't choose what happened, but we can choose how we respond and we can choose to love this and embrace it and
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