We Can’t Let Anything Rattle Us/Accepting What Is
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🗓️ 2 November 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Ryan tells the story of Athenodorus versus the ghost, and reads today's weekly meditation about accepting whatever comes your way, on today's Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics |
| 0:17.5 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:19.5 | Current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:24.3 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of Stoic intention for the week something to meditate on |
| 0:30.0 | Something to think on something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:35.8 | So let's get into it |
| 0:39.5 | We can't let anything rattle us |
| 0:43.0 | Yesterday was Halloween and you may have heard your share of ghost stories |
| 0:47.4 | But it's unlikely that you heard the one about Athena Doris the Stoic |
| 0:51.8 | Advisor to the Emperor Augustus after all aren't the Stoic supposed to be above such silly superstitions? |
| 0:59.2 | Yes, they are and that's sort of the message of the story |
| 1:03.4 | Sometime around the turn of the millennium |
| 1:06.2 | Athena Doris rented a large mansion in Athens that was purported to be haunted |
| 1:12.0 | Undaunted by the stories Athena Doris set about putting his house in order then on his very first night in the house |
| 1:19.3 | Athena Doris was visited by a ghost clacked in irons and dragging heavy chains |
| 1:24.5 | There it was the exact apparition he had been warned about what did he do? |
| 1:29.1 | Flea fall to his knees and pray not this Stoic instead |
| 1:33.5 | Athena Doris in the middle of a writing session motioned for the ghost to wait and returned to his work |
| 1:39.1 | Only when he was finished did he get up and follow the apparition into the courtyard where it suddenly vanished |
| 1:45.5 | Sensing this was a message Athena Doris marked the spot where the ghost had disappeared and then returned to tidy up his desk and go to bed |
| 1:53.0 | In the morning he had workers returned to the spot and ordered them to dig |
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