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Welcome to the Daily Stood Podcast where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more you can visit us at DailyStood.com.

You can find peace. There's a chapter in Epic Titus' discourses entirely about forlornness or solitude depending on the translation. That state where one feels miserable and helplessly lonely.

His aim was to make a careful distinction, lonely and alone are not synonymous. One can be alone in their own company and feel entirely connected and at peace with the world. Just as one can be in a crowd and feel miserably alone.

Similarly, Epic Titus adds the world can be at war while one is at peace, just as the world can be at peace while one is at war.

Even while the world, as it is right now, is in a state of utter chaos while we are isolated from our loved ones while we are stranded indefinitely while everything seems miserable and everyone forlorn, we don't have to be.

As Epic Titus said, the doctrine of the philosophers promises to give us peace from these troubles. What kind of forlornness is left then to talk about what kind of helplessness, why make ourselves worse than little children?

When they are left alone, what do they do? They gather up sherds and dust and build something where other and then tear it down and build something else again.

And so they are never at loss as to how to spend their time. Am I then, if you set sail to sit down and cry because I am left alone in forlorn in that fashion?

Shouldn't I have dust? Shouldn't I have things to play with?

Remember, even when things are stressful, being stressed is a choice. Just because you're by yourself doesn't mean you have to be lonely or depressed, shipwrecked and alone in Athens, Xenophounded, this philosophy, Thrice exiled, Seneca and Musoneus wrote and philosophized, enslaved, Epic Titus remained free and resilient, overwhelmed and at war, Marcus Aurelius found peace while writing meditations.

You have the power to find that too, you have what it takes to feel good, even when things are bad, even when you are stressed because you can choose.

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