When the World Caves In… | Practice Love
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 11 October 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Ryan discusses the reliability of Stoicism during tough times, 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 |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
| 0:19.2 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:21.1 | current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:26.0 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:33.1 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:37.7 | So let's get into it |
| 0:42.1 | When the world caves in |
| 0:44.8 | Imagine Kato's despair as Caesar proved unstoppable |
| 0:49.2 | Imagine Seneca and Thrasia and epictetus is nearer spun out of control |
| 0:54.0 | Imagine Marcus as the triple threats of war and plague and flood converged |
| 1:00.3 | It must have felt as it has for many of us in the last 18 months that the world was caving in |
| 1:06.0 | That it was hopeless that it was unfair that it was only going to get worse |
| 1:11.6 | But we should remember that when everything falls apart there is something we can always depend on and that |
| 1:18.0 | Is philosophy |
| 1:19.6 | William Alexander Percy who survived combat in world war one and the death of his father and brother to suicide and the |
| 1:26.5 | Great flood of 1927 would say of stilicism that when all is lost it stands fast |
| 1:34.4 | That's what Kato and Seneca and Thrasia and epictetus in Marcus are really astound in the pages of the books |
| 1:40.4 | They loved in their own journals and the wisdom they had been taught |
| 1:43.9 | They had a dependable support system |
| 1:46.1 | They found something that gave them hope gave them purpose gave them clarity |
| 1:51.3 | As bad as things are today |
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