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223 – Changing Others
Read more…: 223 – Changing OthersWhen someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn’t have to look outside themselves for approval. — Epictetus. Why do we spend so much time trying to change other people or expecting that other people will change for us?
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222 – Power Over Your Mind
Read more…: 222 – Power Over Your MindThe stoics are pretty clear that we control very little on our lives, but we do control the one thing that will make the biggest impact on our lives – our own minds. You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this,…
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221 – Accept Life
Read more…: 221 – Accept LifeBe content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. — Lao Tzu What does it mean to accept fate?
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220 – Stoics and Emotions
Read more…: 220 – Stoics and EmotionsToday’s episode is about stoics and emotions. So earlier this week on reddit, in the stoicism subreddit, somebody posted a link to an article in Psychology Today called stoicism as a fad of philosophy. I decided to take the time to read the article and…
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219 – Acceptance of Others
Read more…: 219 – Acceptance of OthersWhen you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. — Marcus Aurelius Amor Fati is the acceptance and the…
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218 – Accept Yourself
Read more…: 218 – Accept YourselfOne of the hardest things for us to do, though it is one of the most important things we will ever learn, is to accept ourselves for exactly who we are.
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217 – Interview With Donald J. Robertson
Read more…: 217 – Interview With Donald J. RobertsonAn interview with Donald J. Robertson about his new graphic novel about Marcus Aurelius called Verissimus. We talk about all kinds of stoic history and the politics of his day.
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216 – Give yourself fully to your endeavors
Read more…: 216 – Give yourself fully to your endeavorsForget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. —Marcus Aurelius Don’t let fear, low self-esteem and the negative voices hold you back from your true destiny. —David Goggins
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215 – The Space Between
Read more…: 215 – The Space Between“When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.” ― Marcus Aurelius
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214 – Embody Your Philosophy
Read more…: 214 – Embody Your PhilosophyDon’t explain your philosophy. Embody it. — Epictetus. The hardest thing about any philosophy is being able to apply what you learn in real life. We can read all the books, watch all the videos, follow all the gurus, but until we actually apply what…
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