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The ancient practice of stoic philosophy has a way of life. To experience well being, we must live in agreement with nature. Stoicism as not designed to help us acquire the things we desire. The only goal of stoic training is the development of moral excellence,. By developing virtue, we do experience tranquillity and peace of mind. But that is coincident with the development of virtue, which is the goal.

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