You Must Meet It All the Same
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 11 November 2020
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
"We have good days. We have bad days. We will have, as Seneca experiences, moments of heartbreak and bad luck as well as strokes of good fortune and good timing. The question is how we’re going to respond to these swings of fate..."
Ryan uses a poem by Rudyard Kipling to explain the poise with which we should all meet fate, 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 must meet it all the same. We have good days, we have bad days, we will have as Senica experienced moments of heartbreak and bad luck as well as strokes of good fortune and good timing. |
| 0:49.3 | The question is how we're going to respond to these swings of fate if we can follow the lines of Kipling's classic poem, if you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposterous just the same. |
| 1:03.3 | Remember that Marcus really is commanded himself to accept it without arrogance and let it go within difference. |
| 1:09.3 | Like Kipling, he saw success and failure as meaningless as imposterous, a rock thrown in the air gains nothing by going up he said and nothing by falling down. What matters is who we are. What matters is the character we live by. |
| 1:22.3 | If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Kipling writes or walk with kings nor lose the common touch. If you can greet anything and everything that life throws at you, if you can be brave and calm and collected and disciplined no matter what happens. |
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