STAKE YOUR OWN CLAIM
“For it’s disgraceful for an old person, or one in sight of old age, to have only the knowledge carried in their notebooks. Zeno said this … what do you say? Cleanthes said that … what do you say? How long will you be compelled by the claims of another? Take charge and stake your own claim—something posterity will carry in its notebook.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 33.7
Musing in his notebook about the topic of immortality, Ralph Waldo Emerson complained how writers dance around a difficult topic by relying on quotes. “I hate quotation,” he wrote. “Tell me what you know.” Seneca was throwing down the same gauntlet some twenty centuries before. It’s easier to quote, to rely on the wise words of others. Especially when the people you’re deferring to are such towering figures! It’s harder (and more intimidating) to venture out on your own and express your own thoughts. But how do you think those wise and true quotes from those towering figures were created in the first place? Your own experiences have value. You have accumulated your own wisdom too. Stake your claim. Put something down for the ages—in words and also in example
It's funny yesterday i had written the word musing then i just noticed it's in tomorrow message from The Daily Stoic Meditation
musing: a period of reflection or thought.
So the message is when I wake up to be with God in the morning I need to write down my Musings. Because as it says in the message for tomorrow "Your own experiences have value. You have accumulated your own wisdom too. Stake your claim. Put something down for the ages—in words and also in example.
---TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW ---
Some people will never understand what you bring to the table until they watch you in action
People who don't support you and discourage you may not actually be bad people who intentionally want to destroy your dreams. Sometimes, they just don't understand why you do what you do, so they voice out their concerns Not everyone will see the spark in you, just make sure you see it in yourself and never give up
And what i do know is "Faith based on experience is not faith; faith based on God’s revealed truth is the only faith there is."
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