https://markjacobsen.net/tags/philosophy/Recent content in Philosophy on MarkJacobsen.netHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usSat, 18 Nov 2017 11:28:57 +0000https://markjacobsen.net/2017/11/amor-fati/Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:28:57 +0000https://markjacobsen.net/2017/11/amor-fati/<p>I really like this post on <a href="https://dailystoic.com/stoic-response-bad-news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Stoic Response to Bad News</a>, but just wanted to call out the philosophy of “amor fati”… which if truth be told I could stand to implement more often. Anyway, what does “amor fati” mean?</p> <ul> <li>Love your fate</li> <li>With it you feel that everything happens for a purpose, and that it is up to you to make this purpose something positive and active.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Treating each and every moment—no matter how challenging—as something to be embraced, not avoided. To not only be okay with it, but love it and be better for it.</li> </ul>