Will You Receive This Gift? | Turn Words Into Works
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🗓️ 25 December 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
This is the story of Jesus, who people all over the world celebrate today on Christmas. But just as well, this is the story of Seneca. Remarkably, Seneca and Jesus lived nearly parallel lives. Not only that, but they were also born—according to many sources—in the same year. No one can confirm for certain the exact birth date for either, but it is indisputable that two of history’s greatest philosophers walked the earth at the same time.
More incredible is just how much their teachings overlap. And it’s worth taking some time this Christmas morning to consider those similarities.
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And in today's Daily Stoic journal reading, Ryan reminds us that the art of living will never be found anywhere but in our own efforts to be good people, to get active in our rescue, and starting the year off by holding ourselves accountable.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, |
| 0:09.8 | illustrated with stories from history, current events and literature to help you be better at what you do. |
| 0:15.0 | And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of stoic intention for the week, something to meditate on, |
| 0:22.5 | something to think on, |
| 0:24.1 | something to leave you with, to journal about |
| 0:26.4 | whatever it is you happen to be doing. |
| 0:28.7 | So let's get into it. |
| 0:39.0 | Will you receive this gift? |
| 0:42.0 | Over 2,000 years ago, one of the world's greatest philosophers was born. |
| 0:47.0 | He came of age under the Roman Empire and spread a message of kindness and mercy and doing one's duty. He taught millions how to live and how to die over the course of his life and his legacy. |
| 0:58.0 | How to better themselves and treat their neighbors too. |
| 1:01.0 | But eventually this wisdom grew controversial a threat to the state and |
| 1:05.4 | his death came at the hands of the censureans they sent for him. And yet even during |
| 1:10.3 | the very public agony and humiliation of his death he asked his loved ones and |
| 1:14.8 | followers to stay strong to forgive the excesses of an emperor who did not know what he was |
| 1:21.3 | doing in those brave final moments he immortalized himself forever. |
| 1:27.6 | This is the story of Jesus who people all over the world celebrate today on Christmas. |
| 1:33.5 | But just as well, this is the story of Seneca. |
| 1:36.2 | Remarkably Seneca and Jesus lived nearly parallel lives. |
| 1:39.9 | Not only that, but they were born according to many sources in the same year. |
| 1:43.9 | No one can confirm for certain the exact birthday for either, but it is indisputable that |
| 1:48.8 | two of history's greatest philosophers walked the earth at the same time. |
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