The Daily Stoic - Here’s A Way To Get Some Timeless Stillness

Episode Date: February 8, 2022

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of history's greatest men and women, for more you can visit us at dailystowett.com. Here's a way to get some timeless stillness. Cato knew the feeling, Senna could knew it, Marcus Eurelius knew it, the stillness of the baths, which the Romans built and enjoyed across the empire for centuries. The quiet of the cavernous rooms with their big thick stone walls, the darkness that came from laying face down during the massage, the thick air of the steam room, the restorative waters of the heated pool, the white noise of the fountains as they burbled, the quick

breath instant consciousness that came from moving from the hot pool into the cold pool. It was a timeless Roman tradition, a part of daily life where busy men and women could escape from the dusty, noisy outside world. It was a safe place, a place for stillness and solitude, despite being surrounded by activity and other people. It seems quaint and distant, doesn't it? Except you could have this stillness right now. It's the same stillness available at old-timey private clubs and 24-hour fitnesses alike. You can get it at fancy hotel spas

and the cheap bath houses that dot the globe. Crazy enough, you can even access it at the rudest thermal baths in Budapest, which were built in the 1500s. The baths are just a few miles down. The Danube River from the ancient Roman baths where Marcus Aurelius would have dipped when he was in the city and writing meditations.

In fact, this bath in Budapest actually draws from the same ancient spring that Marcus would have used. There are even two old baths from ancient Rome in Italy and Algeria, both more than 2,000 years old that are still in use today. For thousands of years, humans have been partaking in this experience, slowing down, ducking out from the busy streets and into a quiet place for the wonders of the water, for that restorative alternative between hot and cold, cold and hot. It was available to paleolithic tribes in the form of natural springs to the Romans by feats of engineering genius

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