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Welcome to the Daily Stood Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom

designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000 year old philosophy that has guided some

of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us dailystood.com.

You clean, and then it gets dirty. You do the dishes, and then five minutes later, the

sink is full again. You've made it through your inbox in the morning and by the time late

afternoon strikes, you're already digging yourself out again. Literally before you've

even finished putting the dogs to his away, they've sprayed them out across the floor.

Just as you put the finishing touches on that big project, another is dropped on your

lap. You finally organize your kids' clothes, and now they've grown out of all of them.

It's can drive you nuts, or you can learn to love it.

Intubate Buddhist monks make beautiful mandalas out of sand. They spend hours, even days,

crafting these complex geometric designs, only to wipe them clean and start over as soon

as they're finished. Isn't that a way that we might see all the work we do? Might that

be a way to go through life? It's not about cleaning the house or finishing this or that

it's about the mandala, an unending ephemeral process that we begin again and again and

again. In fact, that's what Marcus really has said again and again and again. The universe

is nothing but change. Everything is constantly influx. Nothing lasts. Some things are rushing

into existence. Others out of it, he reminded himself. Some of what now exists is already

gone. Change influx constantly remake the world just as the incessant progression of time

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