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Zach Braff on Healing and Helping with Art and Stoicism

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

The Stoics' Advice to Grieving Friends

There's actually three essays that Seneca wrote called consolations One is to the daughter of a friend who had died. The other is to his mother and then Seneca is exiled He's going to be sent off probably to die To never see his family or his friends again. It could have been written last week, you know, it it is He's just walking them through like my favorite part is he's talking to this this woman whose father had died. She can barely get out of bed. You're crying all the time. You don't want to go on living. But what would hurt him more than anything in the world would be to watch how Much joy has gone out

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