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The Path of the Spiritual Warrior

The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

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Endurance Is Greatness

Nita's point isn't that suffering in itself is great, but enduring and overcoming it is an opportunity to exhibit greatness. The ancient stoics played around with this idea that they was a stoic god, ok? Now, you can be completely like an atheist. You don't have to believe in any gods to play around wit this frame. And so they sometimes thought that this stoic god wanted to push them into challenging situations just like we want to see our favorite characters overcome the conflict.

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