Stoic Acceptance: A Guided Meditation

How to Love Your Fate and Keep Moving Forward

Do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens happen the way it happens: then you will be happy.

The above quote from Epictetus describes the Stoic approach to acceptance.

The acceptance of all the external events that befall us, all the circumstances we didn’t ask for.

In Latin, it is known as amor fati.

It is the attitude whereby you not only accept everything that happens in your life, including adversity and loss but actually love it.

It sounds unlikely at first.

You might think it’s an unrealistic proposition and not worth the effort.

You might wonder how anyone can love difficulty and misfortune.

But remember, it is difficulty and misfortune that build character.

Adversity is a proving ground. It reveals what you are capable of, and provides proof that you are…