Daily Stoic

The Daily Stoic for November 18th, “Four Habits Of The Stoic Mind”. “Our rational nature moves freely forward in its impressions when it: 1) accepts nothing false or uncertain; 2) directs its impulses only to acts for the common good; 3) limits its desires and aversions only to what’s

The Daily Stoic for November 17th, “Judge Not, Lest…”. “When philosophy is wielded with arrogance and stubbornly, it is the cause for the ruin of many. Let philosophy scrape off your own faults, rather than be a way to rail against the faults of others.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 103.4b–

The Daily Stoic for November 16th, “Hope And Fear Are The Same”. “Hecato says, ‘cease to hope and you will cease to fear.’ . . . The primary cause of both these ills is that instead of adapting ourselves to present circumstances we send out thoughts too far ahead.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 5.

The Daily Stoic for November 15th, “Everything Is Change”. “Meditate often on the swiftness with which all that exists and is coming into being is swept by us and carried away. For substance is like a river’s unending flow, its activities continually changing and causes infinitely shifting so that

The Daily Stoic -and continuation of yesterday’s- for November 14th, “You Choose The Outcome”. “He was sent to prison. But the observation ‘he has suffered evil,’ is an addition coming from you. —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.8.5b–6a On yesterday’s stoic, I explain why I was not able

The Daily Stoic for November 14th, “Never Complain, Never Explain”. “Don’t allow yourself to be heard any longer griping about public life, not even with your own ears!” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.9 I’m writing the Daily Stoic for November the thirteen today, the fourteenth. Yesterday I was