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If you set your heart on what is not your own, you will lose what is.

Musonius Rufus · Lectures · paraphrase

What it means today

Reaching for the unowned puts the owned at risk. A heart split between what it has and what it wants loses its grip on both. Contentment is not poverty; it is custody of what you have.

Try this todayStop reaching for one thing you cannot have today, and tend to one thing you already do have.

Today’s questionWhat am I risking losing, by reaching for what is not mine?

#contentment #desire #grip

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