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What Stands in the Way Becomes the Way
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The most powerful man in the Roman world kept a private notebook. He was writing to himself.
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Marcus Aurelius never meant anyone else to read it. Today we call it Meditations.
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In one passage he says our actions can be blocked, but not our intentions.
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The mind adapts, he writes, and turns the obstacle into something it can use.
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In the Gregory Hays translation it ends like this. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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So whatever blocked you today, ask one question. What can I do with this?
