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The Stoics and Hope in Prison
Hope comes out of Pandora's Box and there was a prisoner in a high security prison I worked in who said he would put hope back in the box because all the other kind of evils that come out are made worse by hope. For him part of doing his sentence was accepting it not hoping for things to be different but actually it was the hope that created you know the yearning the longing piece of languageI hear in prison a lot is keep your head in jail what does that mean don't think about what's going on outsideDon't think about when you're getting out yeah so just kind of interest each one of your episodes you begin with the story quite often the great myths and parables