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John Bogle , founder of the Vanguard Group, one the world’s largest mutual fund companies, has this to say about how we live ineffectively: We chase the ‘wrong rabbits’, things that don’t matter, instead of going after the ‘right rabbits’, things that do matter.

Every annoying person is a chance for patience, kindness, and forgiveness. Every challenging situation is a chance for perseverance and hard work.

“The Ancient sage Booboo Baba described the healing powers of celery and skunk dung poultices.”

As long as you are alive there will always be time to have a shot at betterment. That time is right now.

Do with “genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly”

It is not as simple as stating that eating meat is ‘bad’ or ‘good’

The worst of all is to leave the ranks of the living before dying

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Stoic Fellowship Around the World

How can we achieve total personal freedom when we have so many obligations and so many demands on our time? Is personal freedom even possible?

Learn the fundamentals of Stoicism in ten short weeks

Stoic Book of Anger is the plain English version of Seneca’s classic trilogy, On Anger. Seneca’s On Anger is probably one of the best books ever written on the subject. It is a detailed analysis of anger: what causes it, what price we pay for it, and how we can be totally free from it.

Ancient Stoic texts in modern English.

The Stoic Advisory Board