Stoicism for a Better Life

October 31, 2020

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, […]

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October 31, 2020

Stoicism for a Better Life – Weekly exercise (August 14, 2019)

Hello there, Last week we practiced changing a habit we prefer we did not indulge in too much. This week for our practice, let us go in the opposite direction and meditate on the one constant of the universe: Change. Marcus Aurelius – VII 18 “Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change? […]

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October 31, 2020

Stoicism for a Better Life – Weekly exercise (August 7, 2019)

Hello there, This week for our practice, let us grab some inspiration from the philosopher who inspired Zeno to find Stoicism. Socrates said in Plato’s Republic: “Pleasure deprives a man of the use of his faculties quite as much as pain.” We all have vices. Some are obvious, others not so much. One of the first PEotW was in fact […]

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October 31, 2020

Stoicism for a Better Life – Weekly exercise (July 31, 2019)

Hello there, This week for our practice, let us admit we are not all-knowing, nor are we born with all the knowledge, and learn something we thought we already knew. Marcus Aurelius reminds us to keep learning what we think we already know in Meditations VI 21: “If any man is able to convince me and show me that I […]

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October 31, 2020

Stoicism for a Better Life – Weekly exercise (July 24, 2019)

Hello there, This week for our practice, let us focus on our fellow Cosmopolitans and find inspiration in the words of Seneca from his Moral Letters CIX 15: “It is in keeping with Nature to show our friends affection and to celebrate their advancement as if it were our very own. For if we don’t do this, virtue, which is […]

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October 31, 2020

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 […]

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October 31, 2020

Stoicism for a Better Life – Weekly exercise (July 10, 2019)

Hello there, This week for our practice (and do share what you think and how you practice), let us employ Epictetus’ words from his Discourses III 19 2-3: “For nothing outside my reasoned choice can hinder or harm it – my reasoned choice alone can do this to itself. If we would lean this way whenever we fail, and would […]

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October 31, 2020

Stoicism for a Better Life – Weekly exercise (July 3, 2019)

Hello there, This week for our guidance, Marcus Aurelius reminds us we are fallible humans beings with a modus operandi of failing in our pursuit of virtue in Meditations VI 11: “When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in a manner, quickly return to yourself and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts; […]

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October 31, 2020

Stoicism for a Better Life – Weekly exercise (June 26, 2019)

Hello there, This week for our guidance, Seneca tells us about the “other side of the coin” vis a vis his cautioned advice to give up what is unnecessary in his moral letters V 2: “Repellent attire, unkempt hair, slovenly beard, open scorn of silver dishes, a couch on the bare earth, and any other perverted forms of self-display, are […]

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October 31, 2020

Stoicism for a Better Life – Weekly exercise (June 19, 2019)

Hello there, This week for our guidance, Seneca reminds us that “things” are rarely worth what we think of them in his moral letter XLII 6: “Therefore, with regard to the objects which we pursue, and for which we strive with great effort, we should note this truth; either there is nothing desirable in them, or the undesirable is preponderant. […]

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