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🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Today, on the 24th anniversary of 9/11, let's honor Brian Sweeney and the thousands of others we lost by striving to be, as Marcus said, "free of passion and yet full of love."

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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.
1:01.6	On this day, 22 years ago, Brian Sweeney was a passenger trapped on hijacked United Airlines Flight 175. He knew something was wrong, but he could not have fully understood that he and so
1:07.3	many others were about to be murdered in one of the most hateful and deranged
1:11.4	acts of terrorism in history. But in those final few short minutes of his life, he managed to
1:17.5	leave a beautiful message on his wife's voicemail.
1:21.1	Jules, this is Ryan, listen on an airplane that's on hijack. The things don't go well.
1:26.4	I'm looking good.
1:28.6	I just want you to know.
1:30.1	I absolutely love you.
1:31.3	I want you to do good.
1:32.5	I so happy to find.
1:35.0	Same to my parents and everybody.
1:37.5	And I just totally love you.
1:39.7	And I'll be awake after.
1:41.2	Bye, babe.
1:42.0	What I call you.
1:48.5	In book one of meditations where Marcus Re realis catalogs the most important things he learned throughout his life he said that he learned from a teacher named sextus to be free of passion yet full
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