The Stoic Magazine Library

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’

Understanding our place in the world.

Keeping the creative spark alive.

Living on purpose

Striving for externals

Posidonius was admired and recognized for his scientific endeavors by the Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy, the Roman physician Galen, the Greek geographer and historian Strabo, along with the Roman statesmen Seneca the Younger, Cicero, and Pompey. He was also a strong believer of the Stoic god. It is thus not an exaggeration to state that his theological position drove his scientific enquiry rather than hindered it.

The Story of Marcus Aurelius: 1 Childhood

As Stoics we often talk about living a good life and being happy. And it goes without saying that we all want to be happy.

Stoic philosophy helps us deal with life’s challenges.

We live in an age of measurement. Data is constantly being gathered about us and used to measure and predict how we behave. When we go online we are being tracked and assessed, feeding into marketing profiles. Even in the physical world, cameras are recording us, and our iPhones and smart watches absorb a huge amount of information about our activity, down to our stride length.

Stoicism is a perennial philosophy. One problem with perennial philosophies is that sometimes they require us to dive into an analysis which may seem fruitless today because it had been all sorted out thousands of years ago. Our predecessors nailed it and we have nothing to add. And yet, we need to mull it over again and again – that’s how important some principles are.