Stoicism for a Better Life

October 31, 2020

Stoicism for a Better Life – Weekly exercise (May 8, 2019)

Hello there, This week for our guidance, let us keep with a similar theme guide to last week and look at the same letter from Seneca (just further down) LXIII 10: “If we have other friends, we surely deserve ill at their hands and think ill of them, if they are of so little account that they fail to console […]

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October 31, 2020

Stoicism for a Better Life – Weekly exercise (May 1, 2019)

Hello there, This week for our guidance, let us look at the Moral Letters of Seneca – LXIII 7: “Fortune has taken away, but Fortune has given. Let us greedily enjoy our friends, because we do not know how long this privilege will be ours.” Fortune or Fate is the sum-total of all the things that we do not control […]

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October 31, 2020

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

Hello there, This week for our guidance, let us look at Marcus Aurelius Meditations IV 18: “What richness of leisure does he gain who has no eye for his neighbour’s words or deeds or thoughts, but only for his own doings, that they be just and righteous! Truly, it is not for the good man to peer about into the […]

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October 31, 2020

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

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 […]

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October 31, 2020

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

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 […]

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October 31, 2020

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

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 […]

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October 31, 2020

Stoicism for a Better Life – Weekly exercise (March 27, 2019)

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 […]

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October 31, 2020

Stoicism for a Better Life – Weekly exercise (March 20, 2019)

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 […]

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October 31, 2020

Stoicism for a Better Life – Weekly exercise (March 13, 2019)

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 […]

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October 31, 2020

Stoicism for a Better Life – Weekly exercise (March 6, 2019)

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 […]

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