The Daily Stoic - You Own Nothing

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stood Podcast early and add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. Hi, I'm David Brown, the host of Wundery's podcast business wars. And in our new season, Walmart must fight off target. The new discounter that's both savvy and fashion forward. Listen to business wars on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. on music or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowup.com. You own nothing.

Starting point is 00:00:53 As we work and achieve, we pile up titles and money. We accumulate assets and influence. We build a life, as they say. And a life is made up of things. Our job, our house, our car, our relationships, our house, our car, our relationships, our reputation. Looking around at what we possess, what we've poured so much sweat and blood into, is an immensely rewarding experience. As Margaret Atwood writes in a beautiful poem, the moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage, you stand in the center of your room, your house, a half acre, square mile,

Starting point is 00:01:26 island country, knowing at last how you got there and say, I own this. But the stoic knows that we never really own anything. All we possess in this life, Mark, is really says even life itself, is really only ours in trust. We are renters. Our lives are here on loan. Loans that can get called in at any time can be fired. Someone can dislodge our seemingly dominant market position. A loved one can leave. People die. And that's why Margaret Atwood warns against the pride and satisfaction of surveying one's

Starting point is 00:02:03 possessions. The moment you do that, she says, nature rebels. Almost out of spite, it feels the need to rebuke you for your pride. No, they whisper, you own nothing. You were a visitor time after time climbing the hill, planting the flag proclaiming, we never belonged to you. You never found us. It was always the other way around. None of us own anything. Everything is constantly in flux. What we have today may be gone tomorrow. We ourselves may be gone tomorrow. Understand that. Appreciate everything accordingly. Be grateful and humble or life will rebuke you. Faith will remind you who is in charge and nature will reclaim what is

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The Daily Stoic - You Own Nothing

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