The Daily Stoic - It’s Counting Down For Each Of Us | Practice Love

Episode Date: October 9, 2023

It may have been a hard couple weeks. It may have been a hard couple years. It may have been a tough decade–like the one that Marcus Aurelius had, complete with plagues and floods and betrayals and health issues and more. It may have been a hard life–like Epictetus’s. But you know what? At least you woke up above ground this morning. You’re alive. Not everyone is so lucky. In fact, it may have seemed like you yourself would not be so lucky.--- And with today's meditation on the day's Daily Journal excerpt, Ryan reminds us that we are all one organic hole connected by mutual interest. That’s why we created our own additions to the rich history of memento mori, including: The memento mori medallion , memento mori signet ring And the memento mori pendant, All these were created to remind us that we must live NOW, while there is still time.-⏳ You can view our entire Memento Mori Collection at dailystoic.com/mm✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail🏛 Check out the Daily Stoic Store for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more.📱 Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, FacebookSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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I'm Rob Briden and welcome to my podcast, Briden and. We are now in our third series. Among those still to come is some Michael Pailin, the comedy duo Egg and Robbie Williams. The list goes on, so do sit back and enjoy. Brighten and on Amazon Music, Wondery Plus, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, illustrated with stories from history, current events, and literature to help you be better at what you do.

And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of Stoic intention for the week, something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave you with, to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing. So let's get into it. It may have been a couple hard weeks, it may have been a couple hard years, may have been a tough decade like the one that Marcus Aurelius had, which we've talked about before, complete with plagues and floods and betrayals and health issues and more, may have been a hard life like epictetus.

You know what, at least you woke up above ground this morning. You're alive. Not everyone is so lucky. In fact, it may have seemed like you yourself may not have been so lucky. So here you are alive. For now anyway, what are you going to do with it? What are you going to make of it? Think of all the people who would kill to be in your position. Think of all the people who have been killed and are thus not in your position. Think of all the dark days where again, you were not so sure you would ever get to this position. Let that put everything in perspective.

Let that give you some priority and urgency. Use this gift. Practice Love The stoic notion of sympathy that we are all part of an organic whole connected by mutual interests and affinities is greater than the golden rule. Don't treat others how you would like to be treated. Treat them like you would treat yourself because we are all one. Santa Cah said that whenever he encountered another human being, he saw an opportunity for kindness. And he learned from Haccato of Rhodes that if you want to be loved, there's only one

thing you can do. Love others. Who can you give love to this week? What kindness can you expend? How can you show how you feel? The strangers to friends and family? And how can you show how you feel, the strangers to friends and family? And how can you show them that you actually believe we are all part of the same whole? You know, I talk about this a little bit in stillness as the key. There's a quote I like from Seneca says, all that you behold, that which comprises both God and man is one. We are all part of one great body. And there's this quote I love from Edgar Mitchell, the astronaut who was up in space looking down at the earth.

And he says that he felt an instant global consciousness, a people orientation and intense dissatisfaction the state of the world and a compulsion to do something about it. So this idea that we are all one, this sympathy idea to me, is the essence of stoicism. Stoicism isn't to make you an island to disconnect you from other people.

Quite the contrary, Asenica says it's to make you kinder and more connected to other people. And Asenica, the three quotes we have today, one is Asenica quoting Hicato. He says, I can teach you a love potion made without any drugs, herbs, or special spell if you would be loved, love. And then in the happy life, Senika says, a benefit should be kept like a buried treasure, only to be dug up in necessity. Nature bids us to do well by all. Wherever there is a human being, we have an opportunity for kindness. And then in moral letters 95, he says, nature produced us as a family, since we all sprang from the same

source and towards the same end. Nature bestowed upon us a mutual love and joined us together as friends. I think going out into nature, looking at something majestic, or as Agramichal did, looking at the earth from a distance, it does give you this sense of our interconnectedness. It makes a lot of the things that we get angry about, feel very petty and small and insignificant. Being around your kids does this as well. You see just how sweet and innocent and pure they are, and it feels weird to carry anger

or resentment about anything or anyone. As the Beatles say, and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. What are you putting out in the world? What are you contributing to the whole? How are you remembering that we are all, one finger on a large hand, or that we're all part of the same body? The more you feel this, the more connected you are to it.

Not only will your anger and fear and resentment and anxiety dissipate, but you will do better. You will be better. You will be better. You will make the world a better place. That's my message for today. Go out and do a kindness. Go out and do something good. If you want to feel good, do good as the Stoic say,

and I'll leave it there. Sympathia, everyone. We are all part of the same hole. Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic early and ad-free on Amazon Music, download the Amazon Music app today, or you can listen early and ad-free with Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts. Viking, committed to exploring the world in comfort, journey through the heart of Europe on a Viking longship, with thoughtful service and cultural enrichment, on board and onshore. Learn more at Viking.com.