This Is the Greatest Thing | Practice Silence
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 4 October 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Ryan discusses the vitality of stillness and reflection that philosophy demands of us, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
| 0:19.2 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:21.1 | current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:26.0 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:33.1 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:37.7 | So let's get into it |
| 0:42.1 | This is the greatest thing |
| 0:44.0 | It was at the height of his accomplishments as Chancellor of the German Empire that auto von Bismarck asked his great commanding general |
| 0:51.6 | What could possibly be left for them to do? |
| 0:54.4 | After such events |
| 0:56.0 | Bismarck said is there anything left worth experiencing? |
| 1:00.1 | His generals response yes your excellency |
| 1:03.9 | Watching a tree grow as driven as we are as much as we've done |
| 1:08.3 | We must remember that the simple things are often far grander in their glory than any honor |
| 1:13.3 | We may receive or any victory we may secure |
| 1:16.7 | One can't help but sense this idea in both the writings of Seneca and Marcus Aurelius |
| 1:21.4 | For his philosophical explorations and his musing on power |
| 1:25.8 | It's Seneca's descriptions of children building sandcastles and his observations of towns people comically rushing to get their male that stands out |
| 1:35.0 | For all of Marcus's insights about the human condition |
| 1:38.4 | It's his reflection on the way bread breaks open in the oven or the way a lion furrows its brow that hits us the hardest |
| 1:45.3 | He talked about the beauty of natures in advertance and that's what the general was referring to |
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