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This Isn’t For Fun, It’s For Life
Focusing on the Daily Stoic Meditation for August 14 — This Isn’t For Fun, It’s For Life… as outlined by Ryan Holiday in the bestseller 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance and the Art Of Living.
“Philosophy isn’t a parlor trick or made for show. It’s not concerned with words, but with facts. It’s not employed for some pleasure before the day is spent, or to relieve the uneasiness of our leisure. It shapes and builds up the soul, it gives order to life, guides action, shows what should and shouldn’t be done — it sits at the rudder steering our course as we vacillate in uncertainties. Without it, no one can live without fear or free from care. Countless things happen every hour that require advice, and such advice is to be sought out in philosophy.”
— SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 16.3
Philosophy is for life
Self improvement, philosophy and growing is for life.
Philosophy (and all other things similar) isn’t something you simply turn to during moments of crisis, when you feel you have no other solution. Philosophy isn’t something you depend on once, and then forget about.
Philosophy is for life.
