Stoicism on Fire - The Source of All Things

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Modern people as a whole possess more knowledge and material wealth, suffer less hunger and deprivation than our ancestors from any other time in recorded history. But we are unhappy because we have disconnected ourselves from our source nature, universal reason. The stoics provided human kind with a prescription for a better life where every thought, every desire and every action is guided by no other law than that of universal reason. Nothing is too early or too late for me. It is in your own good time.

What defined a Stoic above all else was the choice of a life in which every thought, every desire, and every action would be guided by no other law than that of universal Reason. ~ Pierre Hadot[i] The Stoics placed a rational, divine, and providentially ordered cosmos at the center of their philosophical system and relied on it to guide their every thought, desire, and action. For the Stoic, Nature is the measure of all things. Therefore, the Stoics argued to experience well-being (eudaimonia), we must live in agreement with Nature. [i] Hadot, P., & Chase, M. (1998). The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, p. 308 FULL TRANSCRIPT COMING SOON