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Welcome to the Daily Stoke. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystoke.com.

All we can do is propose. There is a great expression, man proposes, God disposes. You don't have to be religious to understand or agree with it. Just means all we can do is plan, then life intervenes.

Certainly, the Stoke's built much of their philosophy around this humble but brilliant insight.

Seneca spoke repeatedly of the power of fortune to dash all our plans and intentions to pieces. All we could do was be ready.

Was prepared for the whole swath of possibilities. What we get from Marcus Aurelius was this idea that it's better to accept what God, or the logos, disposes.

To say to these sudden changes in plans, oh, actually that's what I wanted all along. It's actually even better this way.

That's what Amor Fati is, a love of fate, an embracing of what happens even if it is the exact opposite of what we proposed, because it still presents its own opportunities.

Whatever we have been deprived of by the swing of circumstances, we remain in possession of our character and our power to respond.

Today, what you've proposed may not come to pass. Your plans may well be dashed to pieces.

And so shrug it off. It was never your call anyway. All you were entitled to was a request than the chips fell.

Now you have to respond and propose what you plan to do about it.

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