Who Possesses You? | 12 Must-Read Stoic Books To Get You Started
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🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
We must retain possession of ourselves. We must get a hold of ourselves. No matter what they do to us. No matter how unfair or frustrating life (and bullies) can be.
Books Mentioned:
Letters from a Stoic - Seneca - https://www.thepaintedporch.com
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius - https://www.thepaintedporch.com
Courage Under Fire - James Stockdale - https://www.thepaintedporch.com
Mans Search For Meaning - Viktor Frankl - https://www.thepaintedporch.com
Hardship and Happiness - Seneca - https://www.thepaintedporch.com
Lives of the Stoics - Ryan Holiday - https://www.thepaintedporch.com
The Enchiridion - Epictetus - https://www.thepaintedporch.com
That One Should Disdain Hardships - Musonius Rufus - https://www.thepaintedporch.com
How To Think Like A Roman Emperor - Donald Robertson - https://www.thepaintedporch.com
On The Shortness Of Life - Seneca - https://www.thepaintedporch.com
The Inner Citadel - Pierre Hadot - https://www.thepaintedporch.com
The Daily Stoic - Ryan Holiday - https://www.thepaintedporch.com
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| 1:37.0 | Who possesses you? |
| 1:41.0 | People do awful frustrating, triggering things. |
| 1:44.9 | They do it now, they've done it for a long time. |
| 1:47.4 | They find ways to insult us, demean us, humiliate us, to great us. |
| 1:51.5 | Marcus Relius would say they do this because they don't know good from evil. |
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