Ignacio Nieto Carvajal

The Daily Stoic for October 3rd, “A Mantra Of Mutual Interdependence”. “Meditate often on the interconnectedness and mutual interdependence of all things in the universe. For in a sense, all things are mutually woven together and therefore have an affinity for each other—for one thing follows after another according

The Daily Stoic for October 2nd, “The Most Valuable Asset”. “But the wise person can lose nothing. Such a person has everything stored up for themselves, leaving nothing to Fortune, their own goods are held firm, bound in virtue, which requires nothing from chance, and therefore can’t be either

The Daily Stoic for October 1st, “Let Virtue Shine Bright”. “Does the light of a lamp shine and keep its glow until its fuel is spent? Why shouldn’t your truth, justice, and self-control shine until you are extinguished?” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 12.15 We enter the autumnal October with

The Daily Stoic for September 30th, “You Can’t Touch Me”. “If you lay violent hands on me, you’ll have my body, but my mind will remain with Stilpo.” ZENO, QUOTED IN DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, 7.1.24 “Sticks and stones may break my bones…

The Daily Stoic for September 29th, “Your Actual Needs Are Small”. “Nothing can satisfy greed, but even a small measure satisfies nature. So it is that the poverty of an exile brings no misfortune, for no place of exile is so barren as not to produce ample support for a

The Daily Stoic for September 28th, “You Hold The Trump Card”. “How appropriate that the gods put under our control only the most powerful ability that governs all the rest—the ability to make the right use of external appearances—and that they didn’t put anything else under our