Stoic Answers: Recent Episodes
Ricardo Guaderrama Caraveo
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”― Marcus Aurelius
“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
― Epictetus
If you'd only be OK with rejection, MAN, you would be invincible, socially speaking.
“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
― Montaigne
How can you solve something you don't know you need to solve?
“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”― Marcus Aurelius
What is more cruel than anger? What is more affectionate to others than man? Yet what is more savage against them than anger? Mankind is born for mutual assistance, anger for mutual ruin. — Seneca
Morality is cowardice is a phrase from Nietzsche. Don't use morality as a shield for cowardice, for that would really not be Stoicism. Learn more by listening to the podcast.
We're always talking about enjoying the moment and our lives, but how does one actually go about it?