The Stoic Way
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Practical Guidelines for a Better Life
Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome and the most famous Stoic, summed up what it means to be a stoic in a single sentence: you can’t control what happens to you in life, but you can control your reaction to it. In this helpful and accessible book, Sean Sadler shares his insights into how to use this 2,000 year old philosophy to enjoy a better life in the 21st century.
The Stoics believed that the good life was determined not by circumstances but by character. People who lived thousands of years before us, soldiers, slaves, emperors, and philosophers, had developed a roadmap to do the one thing necessary to happiness: live with reason, virtue, and acceptance amid uncertainty.
The Stoic Way is about learning to ride the waves of life without resenting them. It is about embracing the full human experience: the joy, the loss, the noise, the quiet with curiosity and grace. It is not about pretending everything is good. It is about seeing that everything belongs: the triumphs, the embarrassments, the heartbreaks, the small miracles of ordinary days.
This book is not a manual or a sermon. It is a collection of short Meditations from the lives of ordinary people with concise, pertinent quotations from the Stoics themselves. If there is a single thread that runs through these Dispatches, it is this: life will hand you both the beautiful and the seemingly unbearable. Your task is not to choose one over the other; it is to love the whole ride and be ready for more.
This is a brief and concise book, meant to be an affordable, simple introduction and inspiration for this distracted generation.
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