We Are Not Alone | Accepting What Is
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🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Ghosts are, of course, a silly thing to believe in (Athenodorus’ ghost story notwithstanding). Yet the Stoics would not have scoffed at Eleanor Roosevelt’s feeling of not being alone in the Lincoln bedroom. As the New York Times would write many years ago in an editorial about her claim, “The White House is built of memories…It will remain a haunted house as long as it stands, but only in the benign sense that unseen presences may still be watching the destiny of the Republic…What American, passing by that great pillared residence, in time of stress, could fail to feel reassured to sense the shadowy figure of Lincoln, just as Mrs. Roosevelt describes him, gazing thoughtfully from a window?”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. |
| 0:05.7 | Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, illustrated with stories |
| 0:11.1 | from history, current events, and literature to help you be better at what you do. |
| 0:16.0 | And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of Stoic |
| 0:20.0 | intention for the week, something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave |
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| 1:09.1 | We are not alone. |
| 1:11.6 | Ghosts are of course a silly thing to believe in. |
| 1:14.8 | Athena Doris is ghost story, non-mustanding. |
| 1:17.9 | Yet the Stoics would not have scoffed at Eleanor Roosevelt's feeling of not being alone in the |
| 1:24.0 | Lincoln bedroom. |
| 1:25.5 | As the New York Times would write many years ago in an editorial about her claim, the White |
| 1:30.2 | House is built of memories. |
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