Hello there, This week for our guidance, let us look at Seneca – XLVIII 4: “Both ambition and anger will wish to have the same rights over me as pleasure, and I shall be torn asunder, or rather pulled to pieces, amid all these conflicting passions.” The Stoic philosophy never teaches to suppress and avoid emotions. This is something I […]
Hello there, This week for our guidance, let us look at Seneca – LXII 1: “Wherever I am, I am master of myself. For I do not surrender myself to my affairs, but loan myself to them, and I do not hunt out excuses for wasting my time.” “Being busy for the sake of being busy” is something most, if […]
Hello there, This week for our guidance, let us look at Epictetus Discourses II 13: “When I see an anxious person, I ask myself, what do they want? For if a person wasn’t wanting something outside of their own control, why would they be stricken by anxiety?” Anxiety is a very broad term and subjective to each person. It can […]
Hello there, This week for our guidance, let us look at the Philosopher Emperor Marcus Aurelius – Meditations II 8: “Failure to observe what is in the mind of another has seldom made a man unhappy; but those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy.” We tend to be far too concerned […]
Hello there, This week let us draw inspiration from Epictetus’ Discourses: “When I see an anxious person, I ask myself, what do they want? For if a person wasn’t wanting something outside of their own control, why would they be stricken by anxiety?” This week, catch yourself when you are anxious about something, or if you recognize the feelings of […]
Hello there, This week for our guidance, let us look once more at Seneca from LIII 9: “Philosophy wields her own authority; she appoints her own time and does not allow it to be appointed for her. She is not a thing to be followed at odd times, but a subject for daily practice; she is mistress, and she commands […]
Hello there, This week for our guidance, let us look once more at Seneca from XLIX 10: “…the good in life does not depend upon life’s length, but upon the use we make of it; also, that it is possible, or rather usual, for a man who has lived long to have lived too little.” Over the past week we […]
Hello there, This week let us draw inspiration from Seneca – XLVII 16: “As he is a fool who, when purchasing a horse, does not consider the animal’s points, but merely his saddle and bridle; so he is doubly a fool who values a man from his clothes or from his rank, which indeed is only a robe that clothes […]
Hello all, As a practitioner of Stoicism, I’m surprised at how focused our practice becomes, and how easily we forget to use virtue in other more mundane applications of our lives that we simply overlook. The past few weeks, we’ve focused on these (no cell phone while eating, eating locally and with few ingredients and choosing our entertainment more wisely). […]
Hello there, I want to continue this trend of practicing virtue in obscure places we might not have though of. We did the dining table two weeks ago, and meal prep/dining out/grocery shopping last week. This week, let us draw inspiration from Seneca – LVIII 25: “…we at times should slacken our minds and refresh them with some sort of […]