"I don't see any Stoic practice as problematic or risky, but I would advise to engage in extreme versions of the negative visualization exercise only if you are an advanced practitioner. The negative visualization is a meditation during which you visualize, slowly and deliberately, something bad or discomforting happening to you."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Massimo Pigliucci

#Exercise Quotes #Meditation Quotes #Negative Quotes

“California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices ...”

Source : Gertrude Atherton (2014). “The Avalanche”, p.101, The Floating Press
“Well, I have my own article on where the heck is global warming?...The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't.”
“I don't let myself get carried away by my own ideas; I abandon 19 out of 20 of them every day.”
“There is nothing I love more than my role as a mom.”

Source : "Kristin Cavallari: Designing a Healthy, Balanced Life". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Above all, every member of the university has an obligation to permit free expression in the university. No member has a right to prevent such expression. Every official of the university, moreover, has a special obligation to foster free expression and to ensure that it is not obstructed.”

Source : "Free Expression, Peaceful Dissent, and Demonstrations". Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression at Yale, catalog.yale.edu. January 1975.
“There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.”
“Judith took a deep breath. "Aye, you captured Iain's wife," she said again. "But he married your daughter.”
“Look you dead in the face Now tell me how good does it taste”

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