Be content - it's a radical notion

The idea of being content is a radical notion.

You ask me if I am content.
Not free from burdens—but yes, I am content.
And I will tell you why.
Contentment is not the absence of desire, but the quiet mastery of it.
It is not to have all things, but to need fewer, to want what you already have. The world will always offer more—more pleasure, more noise, more validation—but the Stoic learns to ask:
“Do I truly need this to live well?”
Epictetus taught that we suffer not from events, but from our judgment of them.
If I am thirsty, I may wish for wine. But if all I have is water—am I wronged? No. I drink the water. I thank the earth. And I carry on.
Contentment lives in that moment: when the soul says, "This is enough."
Seneca warned us of the restless man—
The one who travels far, but cannot escape himself.
The one who buys endlessly, trying to fill a silence he’s too afraid to sit with.

Come, sit with us. Hear the echoes of ancient voices—Stoic philosophers who taught how to discover our true nature.
Together, we learn to welcome our circumstances, to sculpt our desires, and to root ourselves in the cardinal virtues: wisdom, justice, courage, and temperance—timeless beacons for a well-lived life.
Come join us, it's a fantastical journey, you will not be disappointed.

Gerry & James
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