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How do we find meaning amid loss, disruption, or the silent erosion of what we hold dear?
In Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience, philosopher Nancy Sherman, a leading scholar of ancient and modern ethics, revives the enduring teachings of Epictetus, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and their companions in reason. She offers not a cold or detached Stoicism, but a profoundly human one: a Stoicism of compassion, connection, and moral courage.
(A reflective narrative inspired by Arthur Brooks’s morning practice)
“Every morning a new arrival.”
-Rumi
The first light had not yet touched the horizon when Arthur Brooks, a professor of happiness at Harvard, quietly rose from sleep. The world was still asleep, wrapped in silence. For him, this was not a race against time but a meeting with it, a moment of intimacy with existence before the demands of the day began.
Brooks’s practice may sound disciplined, even austere, waking up at 4:30 a.m., moving straight to the gym, delaying coffee until sunrise. But beneath the surface lies something deeper than habit or productivity: it is a philosophical exercise in self-understanding, a dialogue between body, mind, and soul.
What does it mean to live knowing that life is finite — that every choice we make occurs under the shadow of death , freedom , isolation , a...
