It’ll Keep You Waiting
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🗓️ 4 September 2024
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Summary
Wisdom tells us that things are as they always have been…and always will be. So don’t take it all so personally.
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| 0:00.0 | Wundry Plus subscribers can listen to the Daily Stoic Early and Ad Free right now. |
| 0:04.8 | Just join Wundary Plus in the Wundry App or on Apple Podcast. Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient |
| 0:17.4 | wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom, everyday life. |
| 0:21.6 | Each one of these passages is based on the |
| 0:24.0 | 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and |
| 0:28.1 | women. For more you can visit us at dailystoak.com. |
| 0:41.0 | It'll keep you waiting. Marcus Aurelius must have hoped for a better Rome than the one he lived in. |
| 0:45.2 | He hoped people were capable of more capable of better, and he was disappointed. |
| 0:50.3 | He was disappointed as people have always been disappointed. |
| 0:54.0 | That's what's so striking about meditations, how timeless many of his frustrations are, |
| 0:58.0 | how universal and modern many of his observations about people seem to be. |
| 1:03.6 | People have been waiting for the world to change for a millennia. |
| 1:07.0 | People have been hoping that this time it's different, |
| 1:09.1 | that there's been a breakthrough in human nature, |
| 1:11.6 | but alas! |
| 1:13.0 | Look, individuals can change. |
| 1:16.0 | People, the world, it abideth forever. |
| 1:19.0 | It is undefeated. |
| 1:20.0 | This isn't to say that you shouldn't try. |
| 1:22.0 | This isn't to say that we can't make a difference here or there. |
| 1:25.6 | This isn't to say that we can't alleviate needless suffering or help others. |
| 1:29.6 | It isn't to say that we ourselves can't be a bright light within that darkness. |
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