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CTL-VII-0063

“Money came my way and I took only my fair share and slept fine that night.”

CTL · Pillar III — Control CTL-VII · Own Only What Is Yours.

There was room to take more than was rightly yours, and no one would have stopped you. You took your fair share and not a dollar past it. Owning only what is yours is most tested when the surplus is sitting right there. You kept clean books, and the clean sleep is the proof.

Your Practice

  1. Name what your actual fair share was in the situation.
  2. Resist the rationalizations for taking more.
  3. Make sure the others got what was genuinely theirs.
  4. Notice the peace of having kept honest accounts.

The Architects

“No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book X.16 (George Long translation)

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CTL-VII-0001“I'm obsessing over something I can't control.”CTL-VII-0002“My anxiety is through the roof and I can't shut my brain off.”CTL-VII-0003“I stopped worrying about what people think and I feel lighter.”CTL-VII-0004“I let go of something I couldn't control and found peace.”CTL-VII-0005“I finally accepted that not everything is my responsibility.”CTL-VII-0006“Someone I trusted let me down badly.”
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