StanceAttested · Marcus Aurelius
The obstacle becomes the way
What stands in the way of action advances action; what blocks the road becomes the road.
recalled that the mind can turn into material for action what claims to thwart it: the impediment becomes the occasion to exercise patience, ingenuity or justice. To hold this stance is, before a setback you cannot undo, to stop fretting against it and see in it the task of the moment, acting on the part that is up to you. Not to skirt the obstacle by denial, but to make it the very ground of virtue.
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Source: Marcus Aurelius