Let This Always Be The Answer | I Was the First FDNY Chief on the Scene on 9/11

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. On this day, 25 years ago, Brian Sweeney was a passenger trapped on hijacked United Airlines flight 175. He knew something was wrong, but he could not have fully understood that he and so many others were about to be murdered. in one of the most hateful and deranged acts of terrorism in history. But in those final few short minutes of his life, he managed to leave a beautiful message on his wife's voicemail.

If you're syan uh lives on an airplane mess on hijack if things don't go well and it's not looking good, I just want you to know I absolutely love you. I want you to do it. Go have a good time. Uh same to my parents. And everybody, and I just totally love you, and uh I'll realize you guys there.

Hi, babe. In book one of Meditations, where Marcus Reelis catalogues the most important things he learned throughout his life, he said that he learned from a teacher named Sextus to be free of passion yet full of love. Imagine the terror of that moment. Yet when you hear Brian's voice coming through the phone, there's not a trace of fear. It's free of passion, free of anger, free of despair, free of everything, yet full of love.

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