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Guided Contemplation - Embrace Your Insignificance
Season 1 Episode 144
A guided contemplation to help you reflect on a powerful idea from Stoicism: the notion that our insignificance isn't a bad thing.
This idea can be li…
2 years, 4 months ago
Freedom Is Having A Mind Superior To Injury
Season 1 Episode 143
"Liberty is having a mind superior to injury, a mind that makes itself the only source from which its pleasures spring, that separates itself from al…
2 years, 4 months ago
How To Acquire Something That Will Fortify You Every Day
Season 1 Episode 142
"Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run ov…
2 years, 4 months ago
Stoic Paradox 1 - Virtue Is The Only True Good
Season 1 Episode 141
In this episode, we look at Cicero's explanation of the Stoics' main guiding principle—that virtue is the only true good in life.
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2 years, 4 months ago
Renew Your Focus On, And Appreciation Of, The Present
Season 1 Episode 140
"The present moment is enough for you,” Marcus Aurelius told himself in his Meditations.
As Pierre Hadot wrote in his book Philosophy as a Way of Life…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Molecular Pause - A Stoic Technique Inspired by Kurt Vonnegut
Season 1 Episode 139
To help achieve the kind of mental freedom the Stoics enjoyed by worrying less about the opinions of others, I have constructed a short exercise that…
2 years, 5 months ago
Marcus Aurelius's Meditations (Book 12)
Season 1 Episode 138
A reading of the twelfth book of Marcus Aurelius's twelve-book work.
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2 years, 5 months ago
A Stoic Micro Morning Meditation
Season 1 Episode 137
☀️ This episode features a free example edition of my Micro Morning Meditations.
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2 years, 5 months ago
How a Stoic Deals With Harsh Truths
Season 1 Episode 136
When someone tells us a harsh truth, it may question our beliefs or behavior in a way that offends us.
This episode explores how we can use the Stoic …
2 years, 6 months ago
Marcus Aurelius's Meditations (Book 11)
Season 1 Episode 135
A reading of the eleventh book of Marcus Aurelius's twelve-book work.
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2 years, 6 months ago