Stoic Meditations

Epictetus reminds us to draw a distinction between our objective situation and the way we feel about it. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

We should always examine our impressions and ask whether they pass the test: are they in according with reason? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

'My brother ought not to have behaved so to me.' No, but it is his business to look to that; however he may behave, I will deal with him as I ought. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

If now is the time for fever, take your fever in the right way; if for thirst, thirst in the right way, if for hunger, hunger aright. Is it not in your power? Who will hinder you? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Epictetus explains one of the most powerful techniques in the Stoic toolkit for a better and more meaningful life. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

You have vessels of gold, but your reason--judgements, assent, impulse, will--is of common clay. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Epictetus argues that rational creatures will always oppose tyrannical governments. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Epictetus draws a distinction between philosophy pursued for its own sake and philosophy as the art of life. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Socrates liked to daily monitor his moral self-improvement. How can we do the same? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Epictetus asks us to think about what we'd like to be doing when death will overtake us. It's an interesting exercise in self-knowledge. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

What, after all, are sighing and crying, except opinions? What is ‘misfortune’? An opinion. And sectarian strife, dissension, blame and accusation, ranting and raving – they all are mere opinion. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Epictetus reminds us that to become a better person we need to apply our reasoning faculty to arrive at better judgments. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Epictetus puts to rest the notion that Stoics are supposed to suppress their emotions. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

There are three areas of training in Stoic ethics: to desire the proper things, to act properly in the world, and to arrive at the best possible judgments. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Epictetus stresses the difference between physical and inner beauty. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Seneca notices that people fear old age in part because they fear irrelevance. But no one is irrelevant so long as they keep striving to be better human beings. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

People who seek external goods become the slaves of those who happen to have the power to grant such goods. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

What sort of things are truly important in your life, and why? Should you be reconsidering your current priorities? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

People with misguided priorities live a wretched life, so let's get our priorities straight and aim for a serene existence instead. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Seneca writes a poignant passage reminding us of the futile waste of human life that war is. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support