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August 2019

August 12, 2019

The Mystic Pagan

Our lives are nothing but a ritual expressing the creative energy crashing into what we...

December 2017

December 22, 2017

Marcus Aurelius: Three Rules

Every creature should fulfill its nature. Rational beings effect a great many things and should...

August 2017

August 08, 2017

Three Self-Exhortations from Marcus Aurelius

People cooperate in different ways—some work hard, some complain, and some hinder everything. The universe...

June 2017

June 20, 2017

Marcus Aurelius: Advice About Dying

Let’s decide to be content while we are dying. Let’s think: “OK, I’m out of...

May 2017

May 23, 2017

a translation of Epictetus from The Enchiridion

What happens when you try to take power over what you have no power over?—Can...

May 09, 2017

The Art of Living

The art of living is more like the art of the wrestler than the art...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

Marcus Aurelius: Fairly close is not bad

when you think about the benefits of understanding and knowledge, isn’t is clear that wisdom...

April 11, 2017

When You Fail to Live Up to Your Principles

After all, when you think about the benefits of understanding and knowledge, isn’t is clear...

March 2017

March 28, 2017

Marcus Aurelius: A Healthy Eye

A healthy eye is ready to see anything

January 2017

January 24, 2017

The Stoic Method of Marcus Aurelius

Stop allowing your desires to make you a puppet on a string.

December 2016

December 20, 2016

Epictetus: The Right Handle

There are always two handles by which to grasp something— one is good to grab,...

December 06, 2016

Marcus Aurelius: You Are Part of How the Universe Works

Look at the universe in order to realize that you are part of its workings.

November 2016

November 22, 2016

Marcus Aurelius on Badness

The old times and our times, bad is nothing new. Everything that happens is both...

November 08, 2016

Epictetus: Are You an Interpreter or a Philosopher?

Seriously, what do you want? You want to understand nature and to follow her.

October 2016

October 25, 2016

Epictetus: How long are you planning to wait to demand the best of yourself?

You may not be Socrates but still you can live like someone trying to be...

October 11, 2016

Marcus Aurelius: Natural Beauty

If we deeply experience the universe and consider it closely, there’s hardly anything that won’t...

September 2016

September 27, 2016

Marcus Aurelius: A Lifetime Is a Dot

Finally, it takes waiting for death cheerfully, considering death nothing more than the dissolution of...

September 13, 2016

Marcus Aurelius on Finding a Personal Retreat

You can retreat into yourself anytime. There is nowhere quieter. Nowhere are you more free.

August 2016

August 30, 2016

Marcus Aurelius, from Exhortations to Himself

remember that all living things are our family and that caring for all is our...

August 16, 2016

Epictetus on Looking Smart

"If you look smart, you’re doing something wrong." -Epictetus

July 2016

July 19, 2016

Epictetus – On Planning

Forget about controlling what happens; learn to wish that everything that happens happens just as...

July 05, 2016

Seneca from “On Tranquility”

[J]ust as some wounds love being prodded, just so minds that love toil and trouble...

June 2016

June 07, 2016

Seneca: more on "The Shortness of Life," XVI

A long life isn’t about feeling that the days are long

May 2016

May 24, 2016

Seneca, “On The Shortness of Life,”

No age is closed to us if we wish to expand our minds—we roam through...

May 10, 2016

Properties of the Rational Soul – Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius started Chapter 11 of his Meditations with the properties of the rational soul:

April 2016

April 12, 2016

Marcus Aurelius on Contemplation

Develop a thoughtful way of seeing how all things change from one thing into another;...

March 2016

March 29, 2016

from The Handbook by Epictetus, “Where Your Piety Goes”

Nature's Sacred Journey welcomes the Rev. David Breeden whose translations of the Roman philosophers (who...

December 2015

December 02, 2015

Stoic Survivor

David Pollard writes about a political figure of the recent past who survived eight years...

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