The Daily Stoic · 2026-09-01 · 11 min · 1,937 words

As Above, So Below | How Seeing Earth From Space Changes You (with Astronaut Mark Kelly)

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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. As above, So

Below. From the window of an airplane everything looks small. From the window of a spaceship as Two astronauts have told us on the Daily Stoic podcast. You can check out our episode with Terry Verts and Mark Kelly.

From the window of an airplane borders and distinctions fall away. From the top of the Acropolis where Marcus Aurelius once stood, you can see the rhythm and the interconnected of life. as he says, herds and armies, farms, weddings, divorces, births, deaths, noisy courtrooms, desert places, all the foreign peoples, holidays, days of mourning, Market days all mixed together.

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