You Can Get Away From It All Anytime You Like | 12 Stoic Ways to Quiet Your Mind
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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues: courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom. Into the real world. You can get away from it all anytime you like. It would certainly be nicer, it'd be quieter.
be an escape from all this, the work, the annoying people, the noise, the heat, the responsibilities. This is why we dream of vacations, of the open road, of getting out into the woods or to the ocean. People try to get away from it all. To the country, to the beach, to the mountains, Mark Solius writes in Meditations. You always wish that you could do that too.
Of course the Emperor of Rome wished for all that. We all do. The thing is, he said, we can, and he could. Any time he liked, in fact. Not by travelling but by going within, he said.
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