A Syrian story in progress

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Day 4 

yes to chess, reading, Vipassana, visualization 

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Vernon Howard is a person out of this fucking world with his insights and shit. 

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Shit happens. 

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New day new life 

do hard things. 

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Do the hard things. 

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Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.

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Just now, integration journey said:

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness. Unfortunately the happiness is there. There is always the chance (about eight hundred and fifty to one) that another heart will come to mine. I can't help hoping, and keeping faith, and loving beauty. Quite frequently I am not so miserable as it would be wise to be.

Said by one of the stoics I don’t remember who 

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Curb your desire—don’t set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need.” – Epictetus

 

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.” – Viktor Frankl