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How to Demand the Best for Yourself

Perennial Meditations

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Are You a Socrates?

Socrates fulfilled himself by attending to nothing except reason in everything he encountered. Epictetus stressed that being intentional and focusing on progress is critical. Demanding the best for yourself comes down to choices. To quote Maslow a final time, one can choose to go back toward safety or forward towards growth. Growth must be chosen again and again. Prayer must be overcome again and again - you are at the Olympic Games now.

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