{"id":19685,"date":"2016-10-31T23:58:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T21:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lecturesbureau.gr\/1\/?p=19685&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2016-10-31T10:58:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T08:58:26","slug":"this-is-what-you-really-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lecturesbureau.gr\/1\/this-is-what-you-really-are\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"This is what you really are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To live life in peace, immune to all compulsion. Let them scream whatever they want. Let animals dismember this soft flesh that covers you. How would any of that stop you from<br \/>\nkeeping your mind calm\u2014reliably sizing up what\u2019s around you\u2014and ready to make good use of whatever happens? So that Judgment can look the event in the eye and say, \u201cThis is what you really are, regardless of what you may look like.\u201d While Adaptability adds, \u201cYou\u2019re just what I was looking for.\u201d Because to me the present is a chance for the exercise of rational virtue\u2014civic virtue\u2014in short, the art that men share with gods. Both treat whatever happens as wholly natural; not novel or hard to deal with, but familiar and easily handled.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<em><strong>Meditations<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Marcus Aurelius<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Image:\u00a0https:\/\/www.google.gr\/search?q=peace&amp;espv=2&amp;biw=1517&amp;bih=735&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj4_uqJ1oTQAhWnQZoKHf58BJAQ_AUIBigB&amp;dpr=0.9#imgrc=EcRmnJ0lEKT72M%3A<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To live life in peace, immune to all compulsion. Let them scream whatever they want. 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