We Can’t Let This Go On | The Portable Retreat
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
“No man is an island. We’ve taken the line from the John Donne poem and turned it into a common expression, but we’ve missed the point. It’s not simply that we can’t exist by ourselves. It’s much deeper than that.”
Ryan explains why we must recognize that we are all a part of the whole, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke podcast each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
| 0:18.3 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:20.0 | Current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:25.1 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoke intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:32.2 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:36.6 | So let's get into it |
| 0:39.9 | We can't let this go on no man is an island |
| 0:44.0 | We've taken that line from the John Dunn poem and turned it into common expression |
| 0:49.0 | But we've missed the point. It's not simply that we can't exist by ourselves |
| 0:53.6 | It's much deeper than that |
| 0:56.1 | What this poet was trying to express is something akin to the collectivism of the Stoics the idea that we are all in this together |
| 1:03.8 | That we were put here for each other that our fates are bound up inseparably from each other |
| 1:08.9 | To be indifferent to the sufferings of others to harden your heart is to harm yourself as well as others |
| 1:16.1 | Every man is a piece of the continent the poem reads a part of the main if a clawed be washed away by the sea |
| 1:23.1 | Europe is the less as well as if a |
| 1:26.2 | Promontory were as well as if a manner of thy friends or of thy own were any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind |
| 1:37.9 | 2020 has been a year of adversity and difficulty in death from George Floyd to the lives cut short by COVID-19 |
| 1:45.3 | To the dreams deferred damaged and destroyed by the economic devastation that followed |
| 1:50.6 | It is so easy to turn inward in moments like this to focus on all the things you have to deal with |
| 1:57.7 | It's easy to be callous. It's easy to look for excuses in rationalizations |
| 2:02.8 | The death toll is actually very low most of the victims were already old |
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