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November    30th

FOLLOW  THE LOGOS

“The    person  who follows reason  in  all things  will    have    both    leisure and a   readiness   to  act—they

are at  once    both    cheerful    and self-composed.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS,   MEDITATIONS,    10.12b

he guiding reason of the world—the Stoics called this the logos—works in mysterious ways.
Sometimes, the logos gives us what we want, other times it gives us precisely what we do not want.
In either case, they believed that the logos was an all-powerful force that governed the universe.
There is a helpful analogy to explain the logos: We are like a dog leashed to a moving cart. The
direction of the cart will determine where we go. Depending on the length of the leash, we also have a
fair amount of room to explore and determine the pace, but ultimately what each of us must choose is
whether we will go willingly or be painfully dragged. Which will it be?
Cheerful acceptance? Or ignorant refusal? In the end, they amount to the same.