Seneca: If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; i…

Today’s Stoic

If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according to what others think, you will never be rich.

Seneca · Letters from a Stoic · paraphrase

What it means today

Living in accord with what is real makes you content with enough, while living for others’ approval makes you forever hungry. True wealth is alignment, not accumulation.

Try this todayAsk of one purchase or ambition today: is this for me, or for how others will see me?

Today’s questionAm I living by my own values or by other people’s eyes?

#simplicity #approval #wealth

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