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Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast. On Thursdays, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation,

but also reading a passage from the book, The Daily Stoke,

365 meditations on wisdom, perseverance, and the art of living, which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Steven Hanselman.

And so today, we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the Stoics, from Epititus Markis Relius,

Seneca, then some analysis for me, and then we send you out into the world to do your best to turn these words into works.

This is what you replace anger with. The Stoics weren't robots. It wasn't that they stuffed things down or that they didn't feel anything.

How could that have been true? They were husbands and fathers and wives and daughters. They wrote beautiful works of art. They took principled stands. They told jokes. They worked hard and they sacrificed.

None of these achievements would have been possible for an unfailing person. Yet it is undeniable that the Stoics talked extensively about the management of one's emotions.

They talked about conquering their temper. They talked about overcoming grief. They talked about quenching lust and dispelling fear.

It's a paradox, but quite a wonderful one. At least it is in Markis Relius' expression.

He explains at the opening of meditations that he learned from sexists not to display anger or other emotions to be free of passion yet full of love.

So there it is. It's not that the Stoics had no temper and no fear. It's that they controlled these emotions and replaced them with love.

They loved their fate. A more faulty. They loved other people. They loved every minute they were alive.

Indeed, the Stoics were not unfeeling. It's that they felt this love so profoundly that it overwhelmed the other petier emotions, the rage, the fear, the pain, the desire.

Love, love, love. That's the key. That's what you replace anger with. That's what you replace it all with.

It is well to be flexible. This is today's entry in the Daily Stoics, 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance, and the art of living.

One day a week I read an entry from the book. I guess slowly but surely over time I will have reread the entire audiobook.

But today we're just doing the June 3rd entry. I hope everyone as well begins with a quote from Seneca on tranquility of mind.

He can't serve in the military. Let him seek public office must he live in the private sector. Let him be a spokesperson.

Is he condemned to silence? Let him aid his follow citizens by silent public witness. Is it dangerous to enter the forum? Let him display himself in private homes at public events and gatherings as a good associate of faithful friend and a moderate tablemate.

Has he lost the duties of a citizen? Let him exercise those of his human being.

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