This Too Is Always Yours (And Can’t Be Taken) | Ask Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 3 July 2025
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There is something that can’t be taken from us by even the strongest strong man or the most unlucky of external events.
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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, |
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| 0:42.3 | This too is always yours and can't be taken. |
| 0:59.6 | There has always been fear, fear that tyrants or fate would take something away from us. |
| 1:05.2 | The ancients worried about being sent into exile. |
| 1:08.8 | They worried that disease would kill someone they love. They |
| 1:11.1 | worried an earthquake could swallow up their house. And these were reasonable worries. Marcus |
| 1:16.3 | Aurelius buried multiple children. Rusonius Rufus was sent away multiple times. Pompeii disappeared |
| 1:23.3 | under a volcano. Today, these worries remain with us and they remain real. A vindictive politician |
| 1:30.7 | can take away your livelihood. A senseless virus can take away your parents. A hurricane or a forest fire |
| 1:37.3 | could wipe your neighborhood off the map. In this way, we are all vulnerable. In this way, |
| 1:42.3 | we are all, to borrow a phrase from Joan Didion, |
| 1:45.0 | that sounds like it came from Seneca, hostages to fortune. |
| 1:49.0 | And yet there is something that can't be taken from us by even the strongest, strong man, |
| 1:54.0 | or the most unlucky of external events. |
| 1:56.0 | Nothing can take from us what we have had. |
| 1:59.0 | No one can take this present moment from us because in the |
| 2:03.0 | attempt, the present moment becomes the past. What we have right now, that is ours, not just now, |
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