This Is Almost a Miracle | The Epictetus Lesson Kyle Carpenter Lives By

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. This is almost a miracle, and too many people refused to take advantage of it. It should not exist. It should not have survived.

It was not intended for publication. It's totally and utterly unprecedented, as we have said many times. Marcus Aurelius's Meditations is the unguarded private thoughts the most powerful man in the world. In its pages we have the philosophical insights and wisdom of someone who lived through a plague, lived through wars, lived through famine, lived through floods, lived through health issues.

One thing after another. And somehow this wisdom has proven not just relatable, but essential for people, for people like us for thousands of years. But there's another wrinkle that makes this whole thing even more remarkable. Meditations would not have been possible without another book that should also not exist, that should not have survived, whose lessons were not intended for publication. Epictetus's Discourses.

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