Stoicism for a Better Life – Weekly exercise (September 4, 2019)

Hello there, First off I want to remind the participants that unfortunately last week’s exercise was never stickied in r/Stoicism (holidays and whatnot) but they can all be found in r/practicingstoicism as all exercises are archived there. For this week, let us get back to some very core precepts of Stoicism and I will draw upon words from Epictetus’ Discourses […]

Stoicism for a Better Life – Weekly exercise (August 21, 2019)

Hello there, With back to school around the corner, vacations ending and summer almost behind us, let us make an effort to strengthen our volition as we enter busier and more turbulent times with some simple words from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations IV 3 : “… tranquillity is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.” In today’s popular lore, […]

Stoicism for a Better Life – Weekly exercise (July 17, 2019)

Hello there, This week for our practice, let us change our view from the macroscopic to the microscopic. Epictetus Discourses II 18.1-5: “Every habit and capability is confirmed and grows in its corresponding actions: walking by walking, and running by running…therefore, if you want to do something make a habit of it, if you don’t want to do that, don’t […]