“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
This is one of the most compressed pieces of wisdom in the Meditations. The idea is Stoic at its core: an obstacle is not an interruption to your purpose — it is your purpose, redirected. Fire that finds an obstacle does not stop; it spreads around it, or through it.
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