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Cultivate the ruling reason within you; it is the one thing that is fully yours.

Marcus Aurelius · Meditations · paraphrase

What it means today

Of all you have, only the ruling reason is truly yours. Everything else is on loan. Cultivate the one thing you own, and the rest can be lost without losing you.

Try this todaySpend a little time today cultivating your own judgment, the one thing that is yours.

Today’s questionAm I cultivating what is mine, or guarding what is only borrowed?

#reason #ownership #cultivation

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