The Daily Stoic - You Can Find Peace

Episode Date: January 7, 2021

“There’s a chapter in Epictetus’ Discourses entirely about forlornness (or solitude, depending on the translation), the state where one feels miserably and helplessly lonely. His aim is to make a careful distinction. Lonely and alone are not synonymous. One can be alone, in their own company, and feel entirely connected and at peace with the world, just as one can be in a crowd and feel miserably lonely. Similarly, Epictetus adds, the world can be at war while one is at peace, just as the world can be at peace while one is at war.”Ryan discusses how we can always choose our response, even in the most dire of circumstances, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.The Daily Stoic is $1.99 as an ebook right now (UK discounted, too)!***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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history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailysteadout.com. You can find peace. There's a chapter in Epicetus' discourses entirely about forlornness or solitude, depending on the translation. That state where one feels miserable and helplessly lonely. His aim was to make a careful distinction, lonely and alone are not synonymous. One can be alone in their own company

and feel entirely connected and at peace with the world, just as one can be in a crowd and feel miserably alone. Similarly, Epic Titus adds, the world can be a war while one is at peace, just as the world can be at war while one is at peace, just as the world can be at peace while one is at war. Even while the world, as it is right now, is in a state of utter chaos while we are isolated from our loved ones

while we are stranded indefinitely, while everything seems miserable and everyone forlorn, we don't have to be. As Epic Titus said, the doctrine of the philosophers promises to give us peace from these troubles. What kind of forlornness is left then to talk about what kind of helplessness, why make ourselves worse than little children?

When they are left alone, what do they do? They gather up sherds and dust and build something or other and then tear it down and build something else again. And so they are never at loss as to how to spend their time. And I then, if you set sail to sit down and cry because I'm left alone and for learning that fashion, shouldn't I have dust? Shouldn't I have things to play with? Remember, even when things are stressful, being stressed is a choice. Just because you're by yourself doesn't mean you have to be lonely or depressed. Shipwrecked and alone in Athens, Xenof founded this philosophy.

Thrice exiled, Seneca and Musonius wrote and philosophized, enslaved, epictetus remained free and resilient. Overwhelmed and at war, Marcus Aurelius found peace while writing meditations. You have the power to find that too. You have what it takes to feel good, even when things are bad, even when you are stressed, because you can choose. The Daily Stoke is $1.99 as an e-book right now to kick off 2021, and we have a premium leather edition of the book available as well.

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