Daily Texts of Stoic Wisdom for a Modern World
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SAMPLE TEXT #72
IT’S ALL IN THE WANTING
Unless we are being held against our will or forced to do something under duress, we mostly are free to exercise our agency – the freedom to determine our actions. Yet in many cases we choose to do that which is not in our best interest or others’ best interest. Then we ask ourselves, why do we keep repeating the same harmful behaviors? I’m trying to do better. I’m trying to resist the temptation to go right to anger, to not lash out, to not judge, to not be jealous or lust after another’s partner. I posit that it’s because we actually want to do those things. There must be a payoff from behaving poorly. What’s the payoff? You must go search deep inside and find what you are getting out of bad behavior and decide what to do about it. I’ve found that in the end analysis, people do exactly what they
WANT
to do, both helpful and harmful. It’s all in the wanting. What do you really want to do and how to behave, and why? Marcus Arelius put it this way in his Meditations, Book 9 entry 40,...
Start praying like this and you’ll see. Not “some way to sleep with her” – but a way to stop wanting to. Not “some way to get rid of him” – but a way to stop trying. Not “some way to save my child” – but a way to lose your fear. Redirect your prayers (thoughts, wants, desires, meditations) like that and see what happens.
This self-directed, voluntary redirecting of wants and desires converts one from a helpless victim to the master of one’s destiny.
SAMPLE TEXT #2
OUR OLD FAMILIAR FRIEND
It’s not what you may think. It’s not the friend that we grew up with all through school. But it attaches itself to everyone at the moment of birth and most mistakenly try their entire lives to avoid it, minimize it, ignore it, and even attempt to escape from it, all in vain. Fear is our Old Familiar Friend. It warns us about danger and harm, and it motivates us toward success. But those positive effects are only possible when we embrace fear and develop a healthy relationship with it. Under that light, fear becomes a valuable ally, a guidepost suggesting which way to go for our best good. Just what an Old Familiar Friend is for. This must be why the Spartans built temples to Fear. They understood their relationship to fear through embracing it as a natural human phenomenon then putting it to its best possible use - overcoming it through appropriate action.
STOIC TEXT #18
THE TRICYCLE EFFECT
When “it” hits the fan, on a global scale like Covid or regional wars, or discord and division during an election, or a local disaster, or a personal tragedy, or even having to deal with the daily pressure to perform at work (all of which can be happening simultaneously – WOW !!), an autonomic response kicks in for the mind to seek calm, order, and equanimity. This automatic survival technique is built into our DNA. Remember what it feels like when riding your tricycle and going too fast when turning and your back wheel comes off the ground and a crash is imminent? You restore balance intuitively. Living the time-tested moral principles of Stoicism are the firm foundation that automatically restores equanimity and balance to an otherwise chaotic modern existence. When the storm rages and the winds howl and the rain is relentless, our Stoic resolve is always greater than what only appears to be impending doom.
STOIC TEXT #24
WHERE ARE THEY?
The Stoic gets a bad rap because of the modern definition of the word itself. We think in pictures and the very word ‘stoic’ conjures up images of this old guy with a long beard, curly hair, made out of stone, literally and figuratively. I wouldn’t know exactly how they were then. I wasn’t there. But it certainly is not an accurate description of a stoic person in today’s modern society. Stoics are all around us, male and female alike. Just check out the various online Stoicism Groups. You see, stoics don’t wear their identity on their sleeves. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be stoic, would they? They are the spiritual and mental giants that are mostly invisible because they don’t need or seek external recognition to validate their worth. You might be in the presence of stoics if they do great things and are unmoved by praise. Look around you. Look inside. Are you one of the stoics, the thinkers, the doers? Could you aspire to be one?
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