“The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.” (Marc Aurel)
If you follow the stoic principles long enough, if you remain calm and steady, if you don´t give in your desires (develope "virtues"), if you live by EUDAIMONIA - lasting true inner happyness - instead of craving for transistory things like fame or money , if you practice APATHEIA and ATARAXIA , if you take responsibility for yourself and engange yourself in your political society, if you give back without demanding something in exchange, if you find your purpose and go all in for it...
THEN you will develope a FIRE INSIDE yourself. And then the things resulting from your deeds will prosper , because it is like JESUS said in Mt: 12,13
"Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them."
Unfair? No, just a law of the universe. "The secret" in application.
What are you waiting for? Demand what is entitled to you.
PS : Don´t forget the ethics ;)

Philosophy of happyness: stoic principles 1 ATARAXY
“For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”(Marcus Aurelius)
Marc(us) Aurel(ius) was not only a great stoic thinker, but also an honored leader of the romain empire. He had to force big obstacles during his time as an emperor, like riots, wars and an awfull plague. The stoic principles he lived by however made him think clearly and remain calm during those upsetting times. One is ataraxy, the steadfastness of the soul. To remain calm in the storm. Train this stillness in quite times and you will benefit, if you need it in hash, loud and stressfull times

Philosophy of happyness : Aristotle (3/3)


“The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence[ ….] and this will be that of the best thing in us.” (Aristotle)

Eudaimonia is greek and means something like „to have a good demon on your side“. Happyness is for him not the luck of a moment - like finding money on the street – nor the blissed feeling we get from sensations we all are seeking – sex, sugar, altcoins pumpin and other kicks.
You have to be active to get the good demon. But why are so many people active in their jobs and still not happy? Because you have to be active according to the plan your soul is determined.

Philosophy of happyness: Aristotle (2/3)

“He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout a complete life.” (Aristotle)

virtues play a huge role in the theory of Aristotle´s ethics. "Arete" is the old greek word for "virtue". A being is "good" if he/ it behaves according to it´s purpose. A good knife cuts good. A good human is - wise, a thinker, politically engaged and so on. There are "moral virtues" and "ethical virtues". To reason is genuine for humans (we can discuss about this...), thats why "phronesis" - prudence/ practical wisdom is very important. The key point: Mesotes. The middle way between two maximum expression of one virtue is favorable. A person is drowning and you see it but you cant swim. Runnung away is corwardly, jumping into the water is foolhardy. Mesotes would be getting help. Thats courage....

Imho nowadays we kind of lose the Mesotes- thing, because our lifes tend to be extreme in different ways.

How do you maintain the middle? And isn´t an average life boring ^^

Philosophy of happyness: 1 Aristotle (tbc)
"True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods." (Aristotle)
Aristotle is considered as one of the fathers of modern philosophy. In one of his most famous books , "The Nikomachian Ethics" , his main statement is, that everybody in the end just wants to be happy. Happyness is the "causa finalis" - the main goal - in life. We can practice happyness as a habit and THROUGH our habits. Wisdom and virtue are very important, wisdom because we can decide, which things truely lead to happyness and virtue (wow, such an old-fashioned word/thing these days...), because we "keep the dopamin spikes flat" (as we would call it nowadays). How do we practice wisdom and virtue? Philosophy is one damn good thing for both ;)
More on virtue tomorow ....

"A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope." (Epictet)
Those red candle days in crypto are gifts, because they remind us, that this "gamble", we get our dopamin spikes from is a coin with two sides. So getting your cheer only from altcoins pumping COULD ;) not be the most substantial road to lifelong happyness (yes, I gotta disapoint you^^) . Broaden the ways to your own happyness this will make you much less vulnerable, if fate (or Jerome ^^) strikes again...

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