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Marcus Aurelius on What His Father Taught Him About Humility, Honor,...
What it takes to attain “the mark of a soul in readiness.” Marcus Aurelius is considered the last of Ancient Rome’s Five Good Emperors, but he is perhaps best remembered for his contributions to...
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How to Begin Each Day: A Recipe for Unshakable Sanity and Inner Peace from...
A perspective-shifting lens for your exasperating daily interactions with unpleasant people. “Take everything that’s bright and beautiful in you and introduce it to the shadow side of yourself,” the...
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Marcus Aurelius on Mortality and the Key to Living Fully
“The only thing that isn’t worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly. And be patient with those who don’t.” “Death is our friend,” Rilke wrote in an exquisite 1923 letter, “precisely...
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The Daily Stoic: Timeless Wisdom on Character, Fortitude, Self-Control, and...
“Meditate often on the interconnectedness and mutual interdependence of all things in the universe.” Few words have been more corrupted by appropriation and misuse than the modern derivative of the...
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Marcus Aurelius on How to Motivate Yourself to Get Out of Bed in the Morning...
“You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you.” “If we design workplaces that permit people to find meaning in their work, we will be designing a human...
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Marcus Aurelius on How to Live Through Difficult Times
“Accept everything which happens, even if it seem disagreeable, because it leads to this, the health of the universe.” “At bottom the whole concern of both morality,” William James wrote in...
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Marcus Aurelius on Embracing Mortality and the Key to Living with Presence
“The longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.” “When you...
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Marcus Aurelius in Love: The Future Stoic Philosopher and Roman Emperor’s...
“Those who love less should be helped out and lavished with more.” “Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love,” a trio of psychologists wrote in their wonderful inquiry into limbic...
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The Stoic Antidote to Frustration: Marcus Aurelius on How to Keep Your Mental...
The art of tempering your fury with an infuriating existential truth. The vast majority of our mental, emotional, and spiritual suffering comes from the violent collision between our expectations and...
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The Good Luck of Your Bad Luck: Marcus Aurelius on the Stoic Strategy for...
“What happened could have happened to anyone, but not everyone could have carried on.” Most people live with a great deal more suffering than is visible to even the most proximate and sensitive...
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Of Trees, Solitude, Love, Loss, and the Stubborn Symphony of Aliveness: The...
From the Stoics to the snails, by way of music, matter, and the mind. It is an annual ritual to glance over time’s shoulder each year and reflect on what has made it most livable and worthy of living...
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The Stoic Key to Kindness
“Suppose someone standing by a clear, sweet spring were to curse it: it just keeps right on bringing drinkable water bubbling up to the surface.” All human lives are too various and alive with...
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2,000 Years of Kindness
From Marcus Aurelius to Einstein, poets and philosophers on the deepest wellspring of our humanity. “Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now,” Jack...
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