{"id":729,"date":"2023-10-01T19:48:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T02:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/?p=729"},"modified":"2023-10-01T19:48:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T02:48:38","slug":"let-your-light-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/the-daily-stoic\/10\/01\/let-your-light-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Your Light Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Does the light of a lamp shine and keep its glow until its fuel is spent?  Why shouldn&#8217;t your truth, justice, and self-control shine until you are extinguished?&#8221;<\/p><cite>MARCUS AURELIUS, <em>MEDITATIONS<\/em>, 12.15<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Your light is all that is good and right within you.  Your kindness, your virtue, your fairness, your dedication to the truth.  It&#8217;s the positive outlook and energy coming out of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In today&#8217;s entry of the Daily Stoic, Marcus Aurelius is simply saying that you should <strong>keep<\/strong> <strong>letting your light shine<\/strong> for as long as you live.  From this point forward, let it <em>never<\/em> <em>stop<\/em> shining out the virtue that you carry within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your lamp has been lit, by your daily practice and by your efforts to seek the truth.  There&#8217;s no going back now!  May your lamp never be extinguished for the rest of your days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Side note: if you&#8217;re like me, you can&#8217;t help thinking of that Sunday school rhyme: &#8220;This little light of mine, I&#8217;m gonna let it shine&#8221;.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/the-daily-stoic\/08\/24\/wisdom-can-come-from-unlikely-sources\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"405\">Wisdom from unlikely sources<\/a>, indeed.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The light that shines within you must continue to illuminate the truth for all of your days.  Let it never stop shining, for as long as you live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":730,"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":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[459,418,458,457,237,147,144],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"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=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/2403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}