A Powerful Passage from Meditations by M...

Embrace life’s everyday graces as sacred gifts. The dangerous thing about shiny toys and material treasures is that they become your drug of choice. They bring fleeting excitement and amazing inspiration only until they become your new normal. The positive psychologists call this ... Show More

May I humbly suggest that the enemy of greatness is unusefulness. What I mean by this is that once you find a purpose and seek more meaning from your work, you’ll naturally rise above any obstacles and defeat any difficulties because the finest part of you would take a bullet for ... Show More

This move involves a deep understanding of the truth that it’s not what you do once in a while that yields strong results—it’s what you do every day. Little acts of progress stack into monumental success, over time. So be boring. Yes, run the same rituals and focus on the same fe ... Show More

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself) It focuses specifically on a passage in book 9, in which he equates engaging in unjust actions of various sorts with engaging in impiety, sinnin ... Show More

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher and Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius' work, Meditations (or To Myself) It focuses specifically on a passage in book 11, in which Marcus sets out nine remedies for anger allegorically received from the Muses, and the ... Show More

The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius remains one of the great works of spiritual and ethical reflection, as well as one of the key works of Stoicism.   It is perhaps the only document of its kind ever made, the private thoughts of the world’s most powerful man. Today Marcus Aureliu ... Show More

Marcus Aurelius was a Roman emperor, born nearly two millennia ago (121 – 180). Marcus became the Emperor of the Roman Empire in 161 and ruled for nearly two decades until his death in 180. It is important to realize the gravity of that position and the magnitude of power that Ma ... Show More

Meditations is perhaps the only document of its kind ever made. It is the private thoughts of the world’s most powerful man giving advice to himself on how to make good on the responsibilities and obligations of his positions. Trained in Stoic philosophy, Marcus Aurelius stopped ... Show More

Marcus Aurelius was smart. He was rich and powerful. He won wars and conquered territories.But that doesn’t explain why we are still talking about his Meditations so many thousands of years later. As Brand Blandshard would observe of Marcus’s writings 1984,"Few care now about the ... Show More

It’s one of the most haunting paintings you’ll ever see. More than 11 feet wide and 8 feet tall, painted in rich but dark oils, Eugene Delacroix (a student of the Stoics) captures Marcus Aurelius at the end of his life. A plague has devastated Rome. His troubled son stands in the ... Show More

In today's weekend episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan reminds us How To Plan Your Day Like Marcus Aurelius by the way of voice actor Michael Reid. Two millennia ago, the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius penned his personal reflections in a journal titled "To Himself," not anti ... Show More

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“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” - Marcus Aurelius