The Daily Stoic - How to Be Born Again

Episode Date: July 29, 2020

"One day, some 2000 years ago, Marcus Aurelius put up his stylus and jotted down six epithets for himself, values he said that should not be “traded” for any others. What were they? Upright. Modest. Straightforward. Sane. Cooperative. Disinterested."Ryan describes what you need to do and how you should act in order to be "born again" in today's Daily Stoic Podcast.***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.comFollow @DailyDadEmail:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailydademailInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailydad/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailydademailYouTube: https://geni.us/DailyDadSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowach.com. How to be born again. One day, some 2,000 years ago, Marcus Aurelius picked up his stylus and chotted down six epithets for himself. Values, he said, that should not be traded for any others. What were they? Upright, modest, straightforward, sane, cooperative,

disinterested. One of the wonderful things about True Virtue is how universal it seems to be, how many schools and religions and wise people seem to have come to the same conclusions. An example. About a hundred years before Marcus Aurelius St. Paul, who studied a bit of stoicism himself, wrote six similar epithets in a letter to the Philippians. Here they are. Whatever so things are true, whatever so things are honest, whatever so things are just, whatever so things are pure, whatever so things are lovely, whatever so things are just whatever so things are pure whatever so things are lovely whatever so things are of good Report if there be any virtue if there be any praise think on these things

It's also remarkable to see what Marcus promised would happen if you followed this prescription If you maintain your claim to these epithets you wrote without caring if others apply them to you or not You'll become a new person, living a new life. Or, as the Christians would say, you become born again. Well, today is the day to do that. It doesn't matter what you've done. It doesn't matter what mistakes you've made. It doesn't matter how far you've drifted. All of that is in the past. The future is irrelevant. What is in your control is right now. Can you be modest?

Let your moderation be known to all, as it says in Philippians. Can you be pure and disinterested? Can you do lovely acts for the common good? Can you be just and upright? Can you be straightforward and honest? Can you be sane enough? Good report? Yes, yes you can. And if you do, you'll become

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