Don't Lose Your Connection to the Outdoor/Build Up, Don't Tear Down
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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This week we launch a new feature—every Monday, Ryan sets an intention for the week based on his book The Daily Stoic Journal. In addition to the weekly intention, Ryan also reads today's email, which exhorts you to take the time to go outdoors and connect with nature.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics |
| 0:17.5 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:19.5 | Current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:24.3 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of Stoic intention for the week something to meditate on |
| 0:30.0 | Something to think on something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:35.8 | So let's get into it |
| 0:39.3 | Don't lose your connection to the outdoors many of the most beautiful passages in Seneca's writing come from the time |
| 0:46.7 | He spent outside outside Rome in the country outdoors |
| 0:50.4 | Whether he's talking about his estate in the countryside the power of taking long walks or perfectly capturing the joy of a child building |
| 0:57.8 | Sandcastles at the beach we can feel the joy coming through the past and on to the page |
| 1:03.9 | Epicurus for his part talked about cherishing country life and idea to which Seneca clearly nodded his head |
| 1:10.4 | Cato the elder wrote only one thing on agriculture |
| 1:14.7 | Depending on how busy or overwhelmed your life is these days reading the descriptions in Seneca or Cicero who famously said that |
| 1:22.0 | All a man needed for a happy life was a library in a garden |
| 1:25.8 | This evocative imagery about nature can strike a strange feeling in us today |
| 1:30.8 | There's a great line in one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's stories where he writes that a character had a little flicker of envy that city people feel |
| 1:38.8 | Towards the men who live in the open isn't that exactly right? |
| 1:42.1 | We hear about someone who lives a few miles from Tano as a nice porch |
| 1:45.4 | They can sit on who has space to move and stretch and we feel jealous |
| 1:49.5 | Because we know it's a more natural way to live than these cramped dirty noisy quarters that most of us live and work in |
| 1:56.3 | Well, no one says it has to be that way a |
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