The Hard Part Of Stoicism. What Determines Whether You’re A Slave Or A Free Man

You will ever remain a slave as long as you do not disentangle your relationship with the externals (stuff that … More

Stop Getting Ready To Live And Live

“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: It snatches away each day as it comes and denies us...

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I love climbing up a good big and scary mountain. I hate, with all my heart though, the alpine morning. … More

Have you ever done morning affirmations? Like, “I’m awesome, I’m awesome, I’m awesome, ad infinitum”? I have. I don’t believe...

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“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”― Epictetus The … More

It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking...

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“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”― Marcus Aurelius I quit … More

“Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.” Buddha The man burning in the picture above is Thich Quang Duc. He was...

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Epictetus was a slave. That makes him interestingly different from the other prominent Stoics Marcus Aurelius and Seneca. Check out … More

“Well-being is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.”

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