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“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.”

Marcus Aurelius · Meditations

What it means today

What feels like loss is only form changing. You have endured change before and you can again. The pain is real, but the ending you imagine is not yet true.

Try this todayName one thing you recently lost and find the change inside it — not only the absence.

Today’s questionIs this truly a loss, or is it simply the world rearranging itself?

#loss #change #nature

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