Remind Yourself Of This

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1:16Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom in everyday life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2 ,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. And for more, you can visit us at dailystoic.com. Remind yourself of this. It doesn't always feel like it. Not when you're regularly screwing up. Not when you keep losing your temper. Not when you're not as patient as you should be with people. Not when you keep doing selfish things. Not when you're still dealing with scripts from your childhood.

1:50Not when you hear the things your ex says about you. Not when you compare yourself against the greatness of the people you admire, be it a mentor or some historical figure, a Cato or a Mark Surrealist. But it's true. You are good inside. Even if you've done bad things, even if you've drifted off the path, Mark Sreelus tried to remind himself that there was a spring of goodness inside him and that no matter what he or anyone shoveled on it, it was still there, still fresh and new and ever-flowing. The Stoics did not believe in original sin. They did not think we were hopelessly broken. They believed that being good, living well, living as our nature intended us to live was always possible.

2:25You might be low and awful right now, Mark Sreelis writes in meditations, but in just a few days, you can be worthy of being seen as a god, telling himself he just had to go back to the teachings, to go back to his principles, to go back to the spring.

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