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#497 - Donald Robertson - The Stoicism Secrets Of Marcus Aurelius

Modern Wisdom

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The Stoic Thought That He's Meditating on Death

Barker: When we contemplate our own mortality, what goes hand in hand with thoght is thinking about our life as a whole. He says the stoics want us to be really grounded in the present but also have this expansive awearness of the holl e speacean time. But if you do the opposite, and you imagine the absence of things that are currently present? Then, rather than desire, you experience gratitude, right? he asks.

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