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A MEDITATION

“ Pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if you bear in mind that it has its limits, and if you add nothing to it in imagination.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 7.64

On adversity

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A reflection

Two facts about pain: it ends, and you usually made it worse with commentary. Marcus's remedy is to stop narrating. Let the sensation exist without the catastrophizing soundtrack, and half of what you call suffering quietly dissolves.

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