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Welcome to another edition of the Dying Every Day series, which delivers guided Stoic meditations on the art of living. This episode is available to all subscribers (although not every episode in the series is), if you enjoy it, please consider becoming a Perennial Meditations member on Substack. There, you’ll find the transcripts to these episodes along with many other benefits!

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In this week’s meditation, we’re exploring the art of conquering oneself — through a selected passage from Epictetus.

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Welcome back to the Sundays with Seneca series on Perennial Meditations, which explores Lucius Annaeus Seneca’s writings and Stoic philosophy. Each meditation includes selected passages from one of Seneca’s letters in search of ancient lessons on the art of living. In this week’s Sundays with Seneca series, we’re exploring selected passages from a letter known today as On Discursiveness in Reading.

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Welcome back to the Sundays with Seneca series on Perennial Meditations, which explores Lucius Annaeus Seneca’s writings and Stoic philosophy. Each meditation includes selected passages from one of Seneca’s letters in search of ancient lessons on the art of living. In this week’s Sundays with Seneca series, we’re exploring selected passages from a letter known today as On Saving Time.

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Sundays with Seneca explores Lucius Annaeus Seneca's writings and Stoic philosophy. Each week, I share a selected reading from one of Seneca's letters in search of ancient lessons on the art of living.

In a letter known today as Some Arguments in Favor of the Simple Life, Seneca wrote,

“I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.” I shall not add how that happened, lest you may reckon this also as another of the Stoic paradoxes; and yet I shall, whenever you are willing to listen, nay, even though you be unwilling, prove to you that these words are by no means untrue, nor so surprising as one at first sight would think. Meantime, the journey showed me this: how much we possess that is unnecessary; and how easily we can make up our minds to do away with things whose loss, whenever it is necessary to part with them, we do not feel. […]