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Welcome to the Daily Stoke 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 DailyStoke.com.

You have to be able to see both ways. There's no question Marcus Aurelius had a cynical eye. This was deliberate. He looked out over a feast and ignored the culinary temptations to notice the dead body of a fish. This is the dead body of a bird or a pig, he said.

He tried to strip things of the legend that encrust them to get to the raw truth and conquer his appetites and his urges in the process.

This sort of cynical equanimity is an important part of stoicism. Cultivating this ability allows us to see things for what they really are, to see reality while others remain distracted by glittering mirages. It allows us to focus on what really matters.

It would also be incomplete, however, to think that this was the only lens through which the stoics view the world. Marcus Aurelius also had a poetic eye and this too was deliberate.

He looked out over a field and saw the way grain bent low under its own weight. He noticed the brow of the lion, even with a pig. Perhaps the same one he would later dismiss when it was cooked up, he found beauty in the flecks of foam on its mouth.

This poeticism is also a part of stoicism. Cultivating this ability allows us to find beauty even in adversity and darkness. It allows us to find pleasure even in the simplest moments. It is what really matters.

You must cultivate both these skills because to see the world in only one way or the other is to be willfully blind.

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