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Practical Stoicism

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Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 13 August 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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In this week's episode we'll be reading and going over the eighth meditation from Book Three of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.com/path -- View a list of our sponsors : https://link.stoicismpod.com/sponsors -- Visit our website : https://stoicismpod.com Check out our reading list : https://stoicismpod.com/suggested-reading Read our articles : https://stoicismpod.com/category/articles -- Online copy of Meditations (Long) : https://link.stoicismpod.com/meditations-long Online copy of Meditations (Casaubon) : https://link.stoicismpod.com/meditations-casaubon Online copy of Seneca's Letters : https://link.stoicismpod.com/letters -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Most of our media are owned by a handful of tech billionaires, but there's one place that still operates like the internet was never invented.
0:10.4	On the new season of the divided dial from On the Media, we're exploring shortwave radio, where prayer and propaganda coexist with news and conspiracy theories, and where an existential battle
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0:33.4	Good morning, Procopton, and welcome back to practical stoicism. Before we get started, I want to
0:42.8	remind you that if you are hearing this message or the ad that preceded it, it means you are not
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0:55.9	which I'll admit I rather like. It also skips the ads and gets, well, straight to the point.
1:01.2	It is just $6 a month, and it includes this neat little feature that allows me to answer your
1:06.2	questions directly and push those answers in audio form to your podcast player and your podcast player only.
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1:23.6	question along with my answer and thoughts delivered directly and solely to them. I think it's a
1:28.5	pretty cool way of being in better service to all of you, and it's a way for you all to support me
1:34.0	in trying to put more of a full-time effort and energy into the practical stoicism project. The more
1:40.1	reliable income I can draw from producing this show, the more time I can dedicate to making it
1:45.3	better and doing more with it. If you think that mission is important as I do, and you'd like to be a part of it,
1:51.7	you can click on the first link in the show notes of this episode to learn more. And with that,
1:57.3	today's meditation is the eighth of book three, and reads as follows.
2:03.0	The mind of one set straight and purified, no pus, no dirt, no scabs, and not a life
2:10.5	cut short by death like an actor who stops before the play is done, the plot wound up,
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