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“Things themselves are indifferent; it is our use of them that makes them good or bad.”
Epictetus · Enchiridion
What it means today

The world is morally neutral — the events, the things, the people. The only moral weight is in how you meet them. The same loss can crush one person and refine another.

Try this todayTake a "bad" event from today and ask: what good use of this is available to me?
Today’s questionWhat am I treating as bad, when its goodness depends on how I use it?
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