By: PhaedraHPS
“Freedom comes from understanding the limits of our own power and the natural limits set in place by divine providence. By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities, and working with them rather than...
View ArticleBy: T. Thorn Coyle
Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius are two friends I return to on a regular basis.
View ArticleBy: Anna Greenflame
Having survived a car crash in August, which left me mostly intact but unable to work (broken wrist, massage therapist), these words ring very true in a personal way. So does the concept of turning to...
View ArticleBy: Zan Fraser
Hey Star- Continuing good luck with your move to Paganistan; have you ever read Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full? (It’s set in your old home of Atlanta.) One of the characters is a guy named Conrad, who gets...
View ArticleBy: John Beckett
I really like your last paragraph. True, you are mortal and no more special or important than anyone else. But all of us who live on this continent have ancestors who immigrated here, whether on foot...
View ArticleBy: Laura M. LaVoie
This is lovely. Thank you for sharing. Also, on a personal level – every great adventure I have ever had started with me wondering what the hell I had just gotten myself into. I’m glad you’ve taken the...
View ArticleBy: Soli
For all my mystic leanings, I am a huge fan of the Stoics. Helps to keep me grounded.
View ArticleBy: Apuleius Platonicus
Bless you Star for writing this. It will serve as a beacon and an example to others who face difficulty, and that means all of us, of course! Personally I prefer the less condensed “Discourses“, but...
View ArticleBy: Melissa DeGenova
You know that synchronicity you were talking about, like finding the one article that says just what you needed to hear? Thanks for that.
View ArticleBy: JustMe
Epictetus has been one of my main referents for some time. I cary a slightly different copy of the Enchiridion with me and read a page or two every day....
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