{"id":1022,"date":"2023-11-09T13:56:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T21:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2023-11-09T13:56:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T21:56:10","slug":"everything-changes-always","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/the-daily-stoic\/11\/09\/everything-changes-always\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything Changes, Always"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The universe is change.  Life is opinion.&#8221;<\/p><cite>MARCUS AURELIUS, <em>MEDITATIONS<\/em>, 4.3.4b<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s quote in The Daily Stoic is brief but powerful.  Marcus Aurelius reminds us that by its very nature, the universe is always changing, and that your perspective matters a great deal to how you feel about things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author Ryan Holiday also uses examples of the ship of Theseus, a shrine in Japan, and the US Senate to drive home the point that <strong>everything changes, always<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Change isn&#8217;t just a force, something that happens <em>to<\/em> the universe.  The universe <em>is<\/em> change, by definition.  The universe is always in flux, always evolving.  Change is the constant state of everything, and it&#8217;s how the universe continues to have meaning.  It&#8217;s often been said that time is the 4th dimension \u2014 in that case, <em>change represents all the dimensions in motion<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The only constant is change,&#8221; goes the old saying.  Therefore, remember that it need not be something that we fear.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/the-daily-stoic\/11\/04\/change-isnt-good-or-bad\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"960\">Change isn&#8217;t good or bad<\/a>, it just is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change is the constant state of the universe, and what gives it meaning.  It&#8217;s always growing, always evolving \u2014 and how you view it depends on your perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20,200,251,75,316,158],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}