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wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom, everyday life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old

philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest

men and women.

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Keep your head out of the clouds.

The image of the philosopher is typically that of an academic,

one preoccupied with big theoretical ideas.

You know, the kind of brilliant but absent-minded

professor, the one so hard at work on the mysteries of the universe that they put

on mismatching socks, the one that can't remember where they put their car keys, the one who doesn't have time

for pesky issues of life or human affairs, because they're on the verge of some breakthrough.

What's so refreshing and relatable about the stelics is that although they too were different,

their heads weren't stuck in the clouds. No, they were down here on earth, doing the people's

business, running for office, fighting in wars, raising children, cultivating a farm.

In meditations, Mark Surreelius reminds himself not to let his mind wander too much.

In another passage he says to put his books aside and get busy with life.

Seneca said that unlike the Epicureans, a Stoic would only not be involved in politics and current affairs.

Something prevented them from doing so. As you see in lives of the Stoics, which I

biously recommend, only a small minority of the Stoics even taught philosophy at all. The rest had jobs that kept them busy and honest, ranging

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