The Daily Stoic - What It Means To Carry the Fire

Episode Date: February 24, 2021

“We’ve talked about this before—this idea of Carrying the Fire. It’s a concept that comes to us from the beautiful and haunting novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Set in an apocalyptic world, one that echoes Rome in the aftermath of the Antonine Plague or even our own days of pandemics and unprecedented unemployment, the novel follows a young boy and his father who are trying to survive in a world of darkness.”Ryan uses a concept from Cormac McCarthy’s The Road to explain the importance of the four Stoic virtues, on 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 Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow Daily Stoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee 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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What it means to carry the fire. We talked about this before, this idea of carrying the fire. It's a concept that comes to us from the beautiful and haunting novel The Road by Kormick McCarthy. Set in an apocalyptic world one that echoes Rome in the aftermath of the Antenine plague, or even our own days of pandemics and unprecedented unemployment, the novel follows a young boy and his father who are trying to survive in a world of darkness. The father inspires and instills purpose in his young son by telling him that they are carrying the fire. Everyone else has become selfish, sadistic, even murderous.

But this small boy, he is good. He remains true. He and his father have drawn hard lines about what they will not do, even if it comes the cost of their own survival. They retain as hard as it is, some hope. They help people when they can, and even when wronged, they do not give in to hate or fear. We can imagine them repeating to themselves just as we must try to repeat ourselves in our own dark times, these words

from Marcus Aurelius. No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. Like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself. No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. Like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, no matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished. Courage, temperance, justice, wisdom, that's our task. That's the fire we are carrying, a fire that is sadly very rare these days, but we must soldier on, we must keep the soldier's faith because it's the only thing we can do

because it's the only hope in things go dark. And we have a beautiful four virtues, Medallion, a coin that emblazings with those four stove virtues of courage, just as Temperance Wisdom in the Daily Stoke Store, to check out at store.dailystoke.com. Hey, Prime Members! You can listen to the Daily Stoke early and add free on Amazon Music, download the Amazon Music app today, or you can listen early and add free with Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts.

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