Happy Stoic Week! One of this week’s morning meditation passages, from Marcus Aurelius, reads in part: There is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his own mind, especially if he has within himself the kind of thoughts that let him dip into them and so at once gain…
Reflections on Stoic beginnings
As I prepare mentally to attend my first “Stoicon,” taking place tomorrow in New York City (including Stoic acceptance of the reality that I need to take a 7 a.m. train into the city on a Saturday), I pause to reflect on what led me to Stoicism in the first place. It’s a complicated stew…
