Adriana and Paul are back with a new podcast episode of Journey of the Rhode Runner! On the day that this is recorded and released, it is 32 years to the day that Paul left for Navy Boot Camp. He tells of his experience and also has a lot of stories. There is plenty...
Daily Stoic: For The Hot-Headed Man
“Keep this thought handy when you feel a fit of rage coming on–it isn’t manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. A real man doesn’t give way to anger and discontent, and such a person has strength, courage, and endurance–unlike the angry and complaining. The nearer a...
Daily Stoic: Philosophy As Medicine Of The Soul
“Don’t return to philosophy as a task-master, but as patients seek out relief in a treatment of sore eyes, or a dressing for a burn, or from an ointment. Regarding it this way, you’ll obey reason without putting it on display and rest easy in its care.” ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 5.9 Inspired by...
Tis the Season(al Depression), Walden Pond, Back Problems
Hi Everybody! It’s been a while since I did a non-Daily Stoic post. In that post, I wrote about working on finding something that sparks me each day. I have been doing that, but of course it doesn’t come easy. Today/tonight, that spark comes from writing to you right now as I am blasting...
Daily Stoic: You Don’t Have To Stay On Top Of Everything
“If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters–don’t wish to seem knowledgeable. And if some regard you as important, distrust yourself.” ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 13a Inspired by The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living Even in this information age, we...
Daily Stoic: Keep it Simple
“At every moment keep a sturdy mind on the task at hand, as a Roman and human being, doing it with strict and simple dignity, affection, freedom, and justice–giving yourself a break from all other considerations. You can do this if you approach each task as if it is your last, giving up every...
Daily Stoic: Watching the Wise
“Take a good hard look at people’s ruling principles, especially of the wise, what they run away from and what they seek out.” ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 4.38 Inspired by The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living All our lives we have had people teaching us one thing...
Daily Stoic: The Three Areas of Training
“There are three areas in which the person who would be wise and good must be trained. The first has to do with desires and aversions–that a person may never miss the mark in desires nor fall into what repels them. The second has to do with impulses to act and not to act–and...
Daily Stoic: The Power Of A Mantra
“Erase the false impressions from your mind by constantly saying to yourself, I have it in my soul to keep out any evil, desire or any kind of disturbance–instead, seeing the true nature of things, I will give them only their due. Always remember this power that nature gave you.” ~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations,...
Daily Stoic: The Only Prize
“What’s left to be prized? This, I think–to limit our action or inaction to only what’s in keeping with the needs of our own preparation…it’s what the exertions of education and teaching are all about–here is the thing to be prized! If you hold this firmly, you’ll stop trying to get yourself all the...