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The practice of Stoicism as a philosophical way of life and rational form of spirituality
An interview with Will Johncock, author of Beyond the Individual: Stoic Philosophy on Community and Connection.
Set before your eyes every day death and exile and everything else that looks terrible, especially death. Then you will never have any mean...
The doctrine that the world is a living being, rational, animate and intelligent, is laid down by Chrysippus in the first book of his treati...
Keep in mind that what injures you is not people who are rude or aggressive but your opinion that they are injuring you. So whenever someone...
Let your every action, word, and thought be those of one who could depart from life at any moment. (Meditations 2.11) I cannot find a more f...
You can always win if you only enter competitions where winning is up to you. When you see someone honored ahead of you or holding great pow...
Whenever a raven croaks ominously, don’t let the impression carry you away, but straightaway discriminate within yourself, and say: “None of...
Keep in mind that you are an actor in a play that is just the way the producer wants it to be. It is short, if that is his wish, or long, if...
The Missing Evidence is Evidence I recently decided to start covering Modern Stoic Fallacies periodically. I have been combatting some of th...
Whenever you see someone grieving at the departure of their child or the loss of their property, take care not to be carried away by the imp...
Keep in mind that you should always behave as you would do at a banquet. Something comes around to you; stretch out your hand and politely t...
If you want your children and your wife and friends to survive no matter what, you are silly; for you are wanting things to be up to you tha...
If you want to make progress, don’t mind appearing foolish and silly where outward things are concerned, and don’t wish to appear an expert....
This interview of David Fideler covers his 2021 book titled, Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living. His book provides a...
This interview of Kai Whiting and Leonidas Konstantakos covers their 2021 book titled, Being Better: Stoicism for a World Worth Living In. T...
Our situation is like that at a festival. Sheep and cattle are driven to it to be sold, and most people come either to buy or to sell, while...
The wise person is still not harmed by the storms of life—poverty, pain, and the rest. For not all his works are hindered but only those tha...
Everything suits me that suits your designs, O my universe. Nothing is too early or too late for me that is in your own good time. All is fr...
Seneca’s writings reveal a committed Stoic, a pious soul, and an inspirational moral philosopher. Nevertheless, some of his actions and fina...
If I were a nightingale, I would perform the work of a nightingale, and if I were a swan, that of a swan. But as it is, I am a rational bein...
What defined a Stoic above all else was the choice of a life in which every thought, every desire, and every action would be guided by no ot...
If you want to make progress, dismiss this kind of reasoning: “If I neglect my business, I will have nothing to live on,” or “If I don’t pun...
Never say about anything, “I have lost it”; but say, “I have returned it.” Has your little child died? “It has been returned.” Has your wife...
In all circumstances keep in mind to turn in to yourself and ask what resources you have for dealing with these things. If you see a good-lo...
Sickness is an impediment to the body, but not to the will unless the will wants to be impeded. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but no...
Don’t ask for things to happen as you would like them to, but wish them to happen as they actually do, and you will be all right. (Ench 8) T...
When you are on a voyage and the boat is at anchor, if you disembark to get water, you may pick up a little shellfish and vegetable on the w...
Don’t preen yourself on any distinction that is not your own. If the preening horse should say “I am beautiful,” it would be acceptable. But...
Uneducated people blame others when they are doing badly. Those whose education is underway blame themselves. But a fully educated person bl...
It is not things themselves that trouble people, but their opinions about things. Death, for instance, is nothing terrible (otherwise, it wo...
Whenever you are about to start on some activity, remind yourself what the activity is like. If you go out to bathe, picture what happens at...
This famous passage from Encheiridion 3 highlights the fact that this handbook is intended for practitioners who are already familiar with S...
Encheiridion 1 focuses on what is up to us and contrasts the tranquil psychological state of those who focus their attention and impulse onl...
The Path to Freedom vs the Path to Slavery As I noted in the last episode, the focus of this podcast series exploring the Encheiridion will...
This episode of Stoicism On Fire kicks off an exploration of the powerful, poignant, and perennially inspiring Encheiridion of Epictetus. Th...
In the last episode of Stoicism On Fire, I focused on the Stoic doctrine of an excellent human life and the fact that such a life requires a...
The last episode closed with a thought-provoking passage from the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius that places our human reason into the prope...
In Meditations 3.16, Marcus Aurelius notes three different capacities of the human psyche and the corresponding character traits of bad peop...
Stoic practice is distinct from academic philosophy because it is a way of life—an art of living—supported by a holistic philosophical syste...
From everything that happens in the universe it is easy to praise providence, if one has within him two things: the faculty of taking a comp...
Our modern world is bursting with angst. News of an impending environmental crisis, worldwide political turmoil, gratuitous violence, wars,...
Prepare for Death to Discover Freedom What is most important? Having your soul on your lips. This makes you free not according to the law of...
The Good Fight Against Fortuna What is most important? Raising your spirits high above chance events; remembering your human status, so that...
A Contented Mind and Pure Hands What is most important? Refusing to let bad intentions enter your mind; raising pure hands to heaven; not se...
A Courageous Mind for Courageous Action What is most important? A mind that is brave and defiant in the face of calamity, not just opposed b...
Love of Fate (Amor Fati) What is most important? Being able to endure adversity with a glad mind, to experience whatever happens as though y...
The Cosmic Viewpoint What is most important? Raising your mind above the threats and promises of fortune, thinking that nothing is worth hop...
Seven Days with Seneca What is most important in human life? That is a perennial question that almost all of us ask ourselves, in one form o...
From the back cover of professor Tim Mulgan's book: Two familiar worldviews dominate Western philosophy: materialist atheism and the benevol...
Many people who were introduced to Stoicism by popular books that were written in the twenty-first century are surprised by the religious na...