![]() We can be made better and brighter by everything that happens. In this way, we can turn what happens to us into fuel. To see hardship as an opportunity, not an obstacle. Rather, it’s a matter of agreeing to work with it. It’s not about accepting hardship then, or resigning ourselves to it. What’s thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it-and makes it burn still higher.” As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow it turns obstacles into fuel. “Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces-to what is possible. Marcus Aurelius believed in the latter approach. As a way of learning about people or situations or actions or things. As a chance to learn about endurance, patience, resilience, struggle. Or, we can choose-we can train ourselves-to see it a better way: As grist for the mill. They don’t want me to succeed, so what’s the point of trying? Clearly, this was not meant to be, we can say. ![]() We can think of hardship many ways: As failure. ![]()
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