Field Notes — Where the Text Gets Strange
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What Is a King? — Section 1 of 6
What Is a King? — Section 1 of 6 The Room Defines the King There is something a great director understands that most people never consciously notice: the room a king enters tells you everything about the kind of king…
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What Is a King? — Section 2 of 6
SERIESWhat Is a King? — Section 2 of 6 Slave of Christ The Lost Language of Belonging (Series: What Is a King? — Section 2 of 6) The Word We Cannot Hear Paul opens his letter to the Romans with…
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What Is a King? — Section 3 of 6
SERIESWhat Is a King? — Section 3 of 6 The Returning King Aragorn and the Two-Stage Christ (Series: What Is a King? — Section 3 of 6) A Personal Note Before We Start The first two sections in this series…
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What Is a King? — Section 4 of 6
SERIESWhat Is a King? — Section 4 of 6 The Counterfeit King How the Serpent Fakes the Recognition (Series: What Is a King? — Section 4 of 6) What This Section Is Doing Section 3 ended with a claim. You…
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VERY LITTLE IS NEEDED
Very Little Is Needed “Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations I read that line for the first time years ago and filed it under things that sound true but are easy…
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NO HARM NO FOUL
“Do away with the opinion I am harmed, and the harm is cast away too. Do away with being harmed, and harm disappears.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.7 This is one of the harder Stoic positions to sit with honestly.…
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THE MIND IS ITS OWN PLACE
“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius The title comes from Milton. In Paradise Lost, Satan speaks those words in hell — “The mind is its own…
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DON’T GET LOST IN OTHER PEOPLE’S MINDS
“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.4 Marcus catches something here that most self-help content spends hundreds of pages…
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THE BUSINESS OF BUSYNESS
“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?” — Henry David Thoreau This one is a Thoreau quote but it sits comfortably in Stoic territory. Marcus and Seneca both…
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YOU ARE THE PROJECT
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” — Epictetus Most of the things I worry about are outside my control. The outcomes of conversations…