Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations)
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Dying Every Day is a newsletter and podcast about mortality, wisdom, discipline, attention, Stoicism, and the art of living. This is a place for meditations for mortals—reflections for people trying to live the Stoic virtues of wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice in the time they have been given. Learn more at perennial.substack.com.
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- Day 160: Kierkegaard and Epictetus on Living With Limits | Dying Every Day · 18 min · Episode 178So what do you do when life feels like too much? Two philosophers give very different answers, and together they point to something you can actually do tonight. Kierkegaard and…
- How Much Is Enough? | Letters from a Mortal · 4 min · Episode 177Think for a moment about something you want. Not something you need. Something you want. Perhaps more money. More recognition. A little more comfort. Now imagine getting it…
- Day 159: The Limits of Self-Knowledge with Brandon Tumblin · 53 min · Episode 176We’re often told to question everything, seek the truth, and know ourselves. But how much questioning is useful? Is truth always good for us? And can we acknowledge our…
- How Much Do You Need to Know Before You Act? | Dying Every Day · 4 min · Episode 175When does reading help us change, and when does it become a way to postpone the next step? In this Dying Daily meditation, Thomas à Kempis and Epictetus help us examine the…
- What Deserves Your Attention | William James and the Stoics · 3 min · Episode 174You can end a busy day having focused intensely on things you would never have chosen as the center of your life. The messages were answered. The small dispute got another hour…
- Remember Death. Return to Life. | Dying Every Day · 7 min · Episode 173Memento mori is a way to bring the important things back into the present. Through Montaigne and Seneca, this episode explores how remembering mortality can loosen our attachment…
- The Story Your Mind Adds | Dying Daily · 4 min · Episode 172A message arrives with fewer words than you expected. You read it again. The brevity begins to sound like irritation; the irritation becomes a judgment about your relationship…
- Day 158: You Will Never Know Enough: Socrates and Epictetus on Acting Without Certainty · 16 min · Episode 171📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 158. You’ve read the advice. You’ve…
- The Life You Are Actually Living | Dying Daily · 4 min · Episode 170📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Daying Daily. You have been avoiding this…
- Can Self-Discipline Be Trained? | Mortal Questions · 15 min · Episode 169📮 Check out my new course, Resist and Persist: https://perennial.substack.com/p/introducing-resist-and-persist Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Mortal Questions. I want…
- Day 157: Carrying the Fire with Shane Trotter | Dying Every Day · 46 min · Episode 168📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 157. What does it take to become strong…
- "Let us Postpone Nothing" | Dying Daily · 5 min · Episode 167📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Daying Daily. You have been avoiding this…
- "The Art of Paying Attention" | Letters from a Mortal · 7 min · Episode 166📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Letters from a Mortal. Before we begin, a…
- The Architecture of a Good Life | Dying Daily · 5 min · Episode 165📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily. Aristotle spent years trying to…
- Day 156: The Unchosen Life—What Kierkegaard and the Stoics Knew About Freedom · 18 min · Episode 164📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 156. Imagine a young man with every door…
- Dying Daily: The Gap Between Knowing and Doing · 4 min · Episode 163📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily. The philosopher and the athlete…
- Dying Daily: The Returning Mind · 4 min · Episode 162📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily. Picture a man tied to the mast…
- Dying Daily: A Stoic Lesson from The Odyssey · 14 min · Episode 161📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily. Picture a man tied to the mast…
- Day 155: Resist and Persist - The Stoic Art of Self-Discipline | Dying Every Day · 12 min · Episode 160📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 155. This week's episode is something a…
- Day 154: Epictetus on the Discipline of Waiting | Dying Every Day · 5 min · Episode 159📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 154. “Don’t demand that things happen as…
