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Welcome to the Daily Stoke. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoic.com.

Here's why we take care of our own. If there's anything redeeming about tragedies or natural disasters, it's the good they reveal in people.

Whether it's the Cajun Navy rushing to rescue people in floods, firemen running into a burning building, or a brave person putting themselves in the line of fire to stop a mass shooting, the worst events also bring out the best in us.

We still take care of our own. These events show us. Courage isn't dead yet. Marcus Aurelius reminded himself and us 2000 years ago that we are all made for each other.

The Stoics talked repeatedly about the idea of the common good to leave someone hanging, turning your heart to stone because there's so much pain and suffering in the world. That is to betray this philosophy.

Much of what happens in this world is outside of our control. We can't stop our hurricane, obviously. But we do have the power to help our neighbor in the middle of one.

We can't help being scared, but we can decide to push through it to speak up and defend someone who doesn't look like us, to say, hey, not in my name to the policies that discriminate or persecute.

We take care of our own because we are all one. We are all part of the same sympathy as the Stoics called it, an interconnected cosmos.

We are all our own part of the same large hole. We are cut from the same cloth and breathe and think and live the same, no matter what superficial differences may appear to exist.

Everyone of the four Stoic virtues, courage, justice, wisdom and moderation teaches us this and demands we act accordingly, starting right now.

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