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Welcome to the Daily Stoke Podcast where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day 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 DailyStoke.com.

Keep returning home. You've experienced it. Maybe it was after your first semester away at college. Maybe it was after a long trip or a year long tour of duty. Maybe it's every time you return to your childhood home for the holidays.

Whatever the cause of absence and wherever the return we've all experienced the truth in the line from the David Fincher movie The Curious Case Benjamin Button.

It's a funny thing about coming home. He says, looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You realize what's changed is you.

That's the thing about life. Even as things seemingly stay the same, everything is always changing. Marcus Aurelius speaks beautifully of life as a river's unending flow,

borrowing from Heraclitus the Stokes knew that no man ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.

All is changed, including us. You have changed as you've listened to this, even as a few seconds ticked by. Every experience, everything you read or watch, every conversation you take part in, indeed every minute that passes changes you.

And yet for all this change, we must continuously return to the timeless principles that remain the same. Like those famous Stoic practitioners who invariably studied Stoicism until their final breaths.

Towards the end of his life, for example, Marcus Aurelius was still reminding himself, keep returning to it. That's why we read and reread meditations, letters of a Stoic in discourses.

That's why you are in year two or three or four or five of reading the Daily Stoic and listening to this podcast. Though the books, the figures, the lessons never change you always do.

And in this way, you are stepping into this familiar river of wisdom, a new.

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