How Stories Teach Us The Truth | Reduce Wants, Increase Happiness
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
“They seem silly. Aesop tells us stories about dogs and mice and foxes and lions. Children love them of course. Isn’t that proof that they’re childish?”
Ryan explains why all stories are windows into the truth, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke podcast each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
| 0:18.2 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:20.2 | Current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:25.0 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:32.1 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:36.6 | So let's get into it |
| 0:40.4 | How stories teach the truth it seems silly |
| 0:45.3 | Asop tells us stories about dogs and mice and foxes and kittens |
| 0:49.8 | Children love these stories, of course, but isn't that proof that their childish? |
| 0:55.5 | No, these stories teach us truth |
| 0:58.8 | They are fantastical creations that deliver philosophical lessons that we might be otherwise |
| 1:05.8 | Disincline to learn lessons about greed about fear about human nature about selfishness and ignorance |
| 1:12.7 | The little prince is a whimsical surreal story of a little boy |
| 1:16.4 | It also beautifully captures innocence and emotion it lands with you even if you haven't been a little boy for many decades |
| 1:25.2 | And that is why the Stokes love poetry. They loved the theater. They didn't see art as frivolous to them |
| 1:32.2 | It was essential. It was a delivery mechanism for truth |
| 1:37.0 | Not everything belongs in an aphorism or a discourse |
| 1:41.0 | Sometimes we need to see truth rendered beautifully |
| 1:44.1 | Sometimes we need it in a story so it sneaks past our defenses |
| 1:49.0 | So it implants in our memory as St. Exupri writes in the little prince |
| 1:54.0 | Sometimes it's only with the heart that we can see |
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