Let Us Fulfill Our Obligation | 10,000 Pages That Will Change Your Life
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🗓️ 28 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation |
| 0:11.7 | designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life. |
| 0:18.8 | Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of |
| 0:24.2 | history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example, |
| 0:33.0 | and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom. |
| 0:40.3 | For more, visit DailyStoic.com. Let us fulfill our obligation. |
| 0:59.9 | That nice, warm feeling you're carrying over from Thanksgiving, that fullness after your |
| 1:05.3 | big family get together, from the meal, from the company, from all of it. |
| 1:09.9 | It's important that you realize that not everyone is feeling that right now. |
| 1:14.6 | In fact, many people are experiencing the exact opposite. |
| 1:18.6 | More than 47 million people in America face hunger. |
| 1:22.3 | Nearly 14 million children. |
| 1:24.5 | That's one in five. |
| 1:26.3 | One in five. Tragic and it's also unacceptable and preventable. |
| 1:34.6 | Add to that the recent government shutdown, federal cuts to programs that help food insecure |
| 1:39.7 | families and interruption of SNAP benefits. And it's not hard to understand why people in need of food |
| 1:46.6 | assistance are there and why their numbers have gone way up. Maybe you're thinking, well, what can |
| 1:52.4 | I do about it? How could I possibly help? Isn't stoicism about focusing on what's in my control? |
| 1:59.1 | How could I personally do anything about this insurmountable |
| 2:02.5 | problem? Well, as Marcus Aurelius wrote, those suffering humans are us and we are them. To allow |
| 2:09.0 | harm to come to them through indifference, through callousness, through despair is to allow harm |
| 2:14.6 | to come to ourselves. It's why the most magnificent moment of Marcus Aurelius' reign was not when he conquered |
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