You Must Go Toward The Oxygen | 10 Stoic Stories That Will Leave You Speechless
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🗓️ 3 September 2024
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When we say Amor Fati, when we say The Obstacle is the Way, we’re not talking about just sitting there, being provided with fuel. We’re talking about surging forward, pulling ourselves towards the oxygen–going towards the fuel, towards the next thing, never stopping, using all of it.
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| 1:30.0 | Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy. You must go towards the oxygen. The way a head looks difficult, it is filled with |
| 1:46.9 | obstacles and challenges. Yet we know we can't go backwards. We know we can't stay where we are. So what do we do? We go forward. In the famous |
| 1:58.3 | passage in meditations, Marcus realist talks about how what's thrown on top of a fire is fuel for the fire. |
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