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Welcome back to practical stoicism. I'm your host, Tanner Campbell, and I'm glad you're here.

Today we've got a question from a listener by the name of Stanislav, and we're covering meditation number 34 from book four, which we will cover first and which reads as follows.

Willingly give thyself up to Clotho, one of the fates,

allowing her to spin thy thread into whatever thing she pleases.

It's about time we got into Amor Fati, isn't it?

Feels like we're about a hundred meditations into the meditations,

and Amor Fati hasn't really cropped up too many times, if at all.

Here's the rundown on Amorphati before we get started. First, Amurfati is Latin. It means

love thy fate or love of fate or love one's fate, depending on the context within which it is

used. Also, the saying is not part of Greek

Stoicism, though the idea, of course, is. When you say Amorfati, it's important to realize that

you're using Latin to talk about an originally Greek philosophical concept. It's one of the

reasons you don't hear me use it a lot, though Kai Whiting and I do have a chapter

dedicated to it, Amorfati, in our upcoming book. Marcus Aurelius never used it, and not just because

he wrote in Coyne Greek, but because he never used it, period. No one used it until it seems

Friedrich Nietzsche. So when you're Amoratiing all over the place, just know that you're

using a pretty modern term to describe a pretty ancient concept. But those misgivings out of the way,

what is that ancient concept? What is Amorphati? You've probably heard the dog and the cart

analogy. I've used it here on the podcast before,

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