“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, and torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.” ~Nietzsche Life is pain. Whether it’s the simple pain of failure, or the complex pain of death-anxiety. Whether it’s the simple pain of hunger, or the complex pain of wrestling with your demons. If you’re alive, and especially if you are living a life well-lived, you will experience pain. How you deal with this pain, and thus how you deal with failure, i
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” ~Marcus Aurelius Death makes everyone a philosopher. Whether we become better philosophers or not depends upon how we live in response to death. Do we balk or do we gawk? Do we cry or do we laugh? Do we cringe or do we ‘rage, rage against the dying of the light’? Do we refine and discover Soul or do we remain unrefined and cling to the Ego? As Epictetus advised, “Be either a philosopher or o
