We Are In Touch With Eternity
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🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Ryan talks about the timeless nature of parenting.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast, where we provide one lesson every single day to help you with your most important job, being a parent. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from |
| 0:23.4 | parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps. |
| 0:34.7 | If you want to improve your relationship with your kids, one of the best ways you can do that is by improving your most important relationship, which is your relationship with yourself. |
| 0:44.5 | Whether it's body issues, whether it's eating issues, whether it's childhood traumas from early in life, whether it's a work addiction, a drug addiction, whether it's how you see |
| 0:57.1 | yourself and that affects how you act in your marriage, right? Dealing with your own issues will make |
| 1:02.8 | you a better parent. And I think the best way to do that is with therapy. BetterHelp Online |
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| 1:44.5 | We are in touch with eternity. |
| 1:47.9 | One of the most beautiful passages from Lucretius, the Roman poet, |
| 1:51.5 | captures the joy of a father bending down as his children race to jump into his arms. |
| 1:57.4 | One of the oldest pieces of evidence of humans in America, as we've talked about, are the footprints of a parent walking in what is now White Sands National Park, carrying and then setting down, carrying and then setting down a young child. |
| 2:12.8 | This thing that we're doing are crazy,, daily existence, this one filled with joy and |
| 2:18.2 | difficulty, love and labor, it is a timeless one. |
| 2:22.4 | The ancient world was unfathomably different from our lives today, and yet somehow it |
| 2:27.6 | was also exactly the same. |
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