Meditations Part-1: Deep Stoicism and Life Lessons

1."Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet to-day inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill. But I, because I have seen that the nature of good is the right, and of ill the wrong, and that the nature of the man himself who does wrong is akin to my own (not of the same blood and seed, but partaking with me in mind, that is in a portion of divinity), I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of upper and lower teeth. To work against one another therefore is to oppose Nature, and to be vexed with another or to turn away from him is to tend to antagonism."

There are many things we can control and many things which we cannot control in our life. We may lose our body parts in time or anything may happen to us physically but the only thing we can control is our mind, we cannot lose it no matter what. You may wake up with many expectations and end up being wrong. You don't have to worry about the thing which has happened but you just need to start to think about the next thing or next phase of your life.

You may except something to happen and your friend may except other thing to happen. There is always good in bad. Life is like yin and yang. The symbol of Kung-Fu. There is good in evil and there is evil which has some good. Take control over your mind and start doing the right things. We are social beings we don't have to hate others we are just in this world to live and let live. Control your mind on good things and good traits of good people. Your life will be good. All these things like hate, greed, jealous and many more bad traits are stopping you from growing in your life.

Why do you have to hate your friend or foe or father or anyone for doing the things which you don't like? Instead you can turn your hate into a good energy. Nature is the best thing in our lives, we have to embrace it well.