Seneca: The happy man is he who is content with himself and his lot.

Today’s Stoic

The happy man is he who is content with himself and his lot.

Seneca · Letters from a Stoic · paraphrase

What it means today

Happiness has two parts: being at peace with who you are, and being at peace with what you have. Neither depends on more; both depend on how you hold what is.

Try this todayPractice being content with yourself and your circumstances for one full hour today, as they are.

Today’s questionWhat would change if I stopped waiting for my lot to change?

#contentment #happiness #enough

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