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Wants Make You A Servant

Wants Make You A Servant

The Daily Stoic for today, April 28th. “Wants make you a servant”. “Tantalus: The highest power is— Thyestes: No power, if you desire nothing.” —SENECA, THYESTES, 440 It’s true that we are slaves of what we want or need. While we think that we can change our lives if

Turn It Inside Out

Turn It Inside Out

The Daily Stoic for April 27. “Turn it inside out” “Turn it inside out and see what it is like—what it becomes like when old, sick, or prostituting itself. How short-lived the praiser and praised, the one who remembers and the remembered. Remembered in some corner of these parts,

Things Happen In Training

Things Happen In Training

The Daily Stoic for April 26th. “Things happen in training”. “When your sparring partner scratches or head-butts you, you don’t then make a show of it, or protest, or view him with suspicion or as plotting against you. And yet you keep an eye on him, not as an

There's Nothing Wrong With Being Wrong

There's Nothing Wrong With Being Wrong

The Daily Stoic for April 25th. “There’s nothing wrong with being wrong”. “If anyone can prove and show to me that I think and act in error, I will gladly change it—for I seek the truth, by which no one has ever been harmed. The one who is

A Productive Use For Contempt

A Productive Use For Contempt

The Daily Stoic for April 24th. “A Productive Use For Contempt”. “Just as when meat or other foods are set before us we think, this is a dead fish, a dead bird or pig; and also, this fine wine is only the juice of a bunch of grapes, this purple-edged

The Mind Is All Yours

The Mind Is All Yours

The Daily Stoic for April 23rd. “The mind is all yours”. “You have been formed of three parts—body, breath, and mind. Of these, the first two are yours insofar as they are only in your care. The third alone is truly yours.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 12.3 I was

The Marks Of A Rational Person

The Marks Of A Rational Person

The Daily Stoic for April 22nd. “The marks of a rational person”. “These are the characteristics of the rational soul: self-awareness, self-examination, and self-determination. It reaps its own harvest. . . . It succeeds in its own purpose . . .” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 11.1–2 I started this daily stoic journey without a clear