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Yes @Max DeMarco 👏👏👏 Everyone watch this documentary!

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I’m now just over £40k deep into a house renovation… Which I originally planned on just changing the paint and carpets… Absolutely sound 👍 Think of all the sats that could have got me over the past year 🙃

Right I’ve slacked off here for a couple of weeks… I can’t see the option to zap notes?

June 30th THE OBSTACLE IS THE WAY “While it’s true that someone can impede our actions, they can’t impede our intentions and our attitudes, which have the power of being conditional and adaptable. For the mind adapts and converts any obstacle to its action into a means of achieving it. That which is an impediment to action is turned to advance action. The obstacle on the path becomes the way.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.20

June 17th OFFENSE OR DEFENSE? “Fortune doesn’t have the long reach we suppose, she can only lay siege to those who hold her tight. So, let’s step back from her as much as possible.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 82.5b–6

Happy to be a part of something for to community, no matter how small and just finding my node in this list makes it feel real #bitcoin #lightning #nostr Run your own node if you can peeps 🤙 View quoted note →

June 16th NO SHAME IN NEEDING HELP “Don’t be ashamed of needing help. You have a duty to fulfill just like a soldier on the wall of battle. So what if you are injured and can’t climb up without another soldier’s help?” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.7

June 15th LISTENING ACCOMPLISHES MORE THAN SPEAKING “To the youngster talking nonsense Zeno said, ‘The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is so we might listen more and talk less.’” —DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, 7.1.23

June 14th TRY THE OTHER HANDLE “Every event has two handles—one by which it can be carried, and one by which it can’t. If your brother does you wrong, don’t grab it by his wronging, because this is the handle incapable of lifting it. Instead, use the other—that he is your brother, that you were raised together, and then you will have hold of the handle that carries.” —EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 43

June 13th LIFE IS A BATTLEFIELD “Don’t you know life is like a military campaign? One must serve on watch, another in reconnaissance, another on the front line. . . . So it is for us—each person’s life is a kind of battle, and a long and varied one too. You must keep watch like a soldier and do everything commanded. . . . You have been stationed in a key post, not some lowly place, and not for a short time but for life.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.24.31–36

June 7th FINDING THE RIGHT MENTORS “We like to say that we don’t get to choose our parents, that they were given by chance—yet we can truly choose whose children we’d like to be.” —SENECA, ON THE BREVITY OF LIFE, 15.3a

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June 6th WHEN TO STICK AND WHEN TO QUIT “Think of those who, not by fault of inconsistency but by lack of effort, are too unstable to live as they wish, but only live as they have begun.” —SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND, 2.6b

Can’t beat a bit of red light therapy 🤙

April 27th TURN IT INSIDE OUT “Turn it inside out and see what it is like—what it becomes like when old, sick, or prostituting itself. How short-lived the praiser and praised, the one who remembers and the remembered. Remembered in some corner of these parts, and even there not in the same way by all, or even by one. And the whole earth is but a mere speck.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.21

April 23rd THE MIND IS ALL YOURS “You have been formed of three parts—body, breath, and mind. Of these, the first two are yours insofar as they are only in your care. The third alone is truly yours.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 12.3

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