You Can’t Carry It With You if You Want to Survive
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🗓️ 24 September 2020
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Summary
"Things happened. Bad things. Things you never wanted, that hang over you wherever you go. We close our eyes and we see them. We worry that they’re going to happen again; we worry that we were to blame, that it was our fault."
How does a Stoic deal with all this baggage? Ryan explains on today's Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:13.6 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good life. |
| 0:23.3 | 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 DailyStoic.com. |
| 0:36.3 | You can't carry it with you if you want to survive. Things happened, bad things, things you never wanted, but hang over you wherever you go. |
| 0:45.3 | We close our eyes and we see them. We worry that they're going to happen again. We worry that we were to blame that it was our fault. |
| 0:52.3 | Not that you're special in this regard. We all have baggage regrets, pains that plague us. |
| 0:57.3 | If we want happiness, if we want to live though, we have to learn how to let this go, how to forget. Let the past bury its dead, Wadsworth wrote, act, act in the living present and Florence in the machine saying, you can't carry it with you if you wish to survive. |
| 1:14.3 | Marcus really spoke of cutting free of the impressions that cling to the mind, freeing ourselves of both the future as well as the past so that we could rejoice in the perfect stillness of the present moment. |
| 1:25.3 | How wonderful that feeling is, how deserving of it, we are. So much of what we're carrying is nothing, nothing that we've carried for a long time, and how much better we would be if we could let it go. |
| 1:37.3 | This moment is in front of you. This day is just beginning and it's a fresh one. It doesn't know what happened or what caused it. It is a blank canvas. How will you use it? |
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