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Total Freedom: Part 3. How to Achieve Total Freedom
As we discussed earlier, we feel that we lack many things and that when we attain them, we will be free. Yet the Stoics insisted that true freedom does not come from wealth, prestige, a perfect body, work that you like, or even your relationships.
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Total Freedom: Part 2. A portrait of a free person
Before discussing how to achieve total freedom, let us look at a person who is totally free. What makes us free? Stoics believed that the only true freedom is psychological freedom.
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Total Freedom: Part 1. Why are we not free?
The Stoic promise is that total freedom is possible. We will see how we can achieve total freedom in this series.
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Stoic Joy: 2. How to find joy?
In Part 1 of this blog, we discussed what prevents us experiencing joy. Here we will discuss some specific ways to achieve joy. Although the Stoics emphasized being rational and virtuous as the cause of joy, they did provide some specific suggestions about finding joy in our daily lives.
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Stoic Joy: 1. Why are we not joyful?
Few of us experience joy on an ongoing basis. Sure, we have periods of happiness, usually when we achieve something or get something. But soon we get used it and we go back to our natural level of happiness.
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9 Ways to Deal with Bodily Pain: Part 2
This blog is second in a series of two discussing the ancient Stoics’ view on how to live a life in which experiencing pain doesn’t automatically mean we must live a life of suffering.
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9 Ways to Deal with Bodily Pain: Part 1
This blog is first in a series of two discussing the ancient Stoics’ view on how to live a life in which experiencing pain doesn’t automatically mean we must live a life of suffering.
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The Importance of Time
Stoics believed that we are given just this one thing – time. Time is what our life is made of. Whether we live to be 100 years old or die young, it doesn’t matter. Once we use up our allotted time, we have nothing.
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Sixteen Best Ways to Outsmart Anger
Ancient Stoics recognized anger to be a destructive emotion. Seneca said, “No plague has cost the human race more.” While we may feel good while expressing anger, most of us don’t like being angry and we don’t generally like being around people who are angry.
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