Stoic Meditations

Seneca reminds us what is the proper Stoic attitude toward past, present, and future. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Honors, statues, and wealth, don't last much after one's death. Philosophy is forever. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

The philosophers of the past are your true friends: they give wisdom without asking for money, or imperiling your life. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Seneca reminds us of the span of philosophical inquiry, and of how delightful it is to engage with the greatest minds from across time and cultures. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Read the great minds of humanity, those that have insights on how to live a meaningful life. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Seneca criticizes the slaughter of people and animals for the sake of entertainment. Today, the suffering continues, in slaughterhouses. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Thought experiment: if you knew you were to die soon, what sort of things would you prioritize, and what let go of entirely? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

The mind that is untroubled and tranquil has the power to roam into all the parts of its life. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Old age surprises people while their minds are still childish, and they come to it unprepared and unarmed, for they have made no provision for it. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon the morrow and wastes to-day. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

There is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles; he has not lived long — he has existed long. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and — what will perhaps make you wonder more — it takes the whole of life to learn how to die. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Are you not ashamed to set apart for wisdom only that time which cannot be devoted to any business? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Examine how you spend your time, decide how to improve, and don't wait until tomorrow to chance. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

We are very careful with the management of our money, but far less so with that of our most precious commodity: time. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

The part of life we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

Is life too short? Depends on what you do with it. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support

To do philosophy means to reason and act correctly toward others. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stoicmeditations/support