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📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Perennial Meditations is a newsletter (and podcast) designed to help listeners never stop learning how to live. 📺 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialPods ---   🖇️ Stay Connected:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perennialmeditations/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialPods...

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Perennial Meditations is a newsletter (and podcast) designed to help listeners never stop learning how to live. 📺 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialPods ---   🖇️ Stay Connected:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perennialmeditations/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialPods...

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here:  https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome to another edition of the Dying Every Day series, which delivers guided Stoic meditations on the art of living. This episode is available to all subscribers (although not every episode in the series is), if you enjoy it, please consider becoming a Perennial Meditations member on Substack. There, yo...

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here:  https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome to another edition of the Dying Every Day series, which delivers guided Stoic meditations on the art of living. This episode is available to all subscribers (although not every episode in the series is); if you enjoy it, please consider becoming a Perennial Meditations member on Substack. There, yo...

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here:  https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to the Sundays with Seneca series on Perennial Meditations, which explores Lucius Annaeus Seneca’s writings and Stoic philosophy. Each meditation includes selected passages from one of Seneca’s letters in search of ancient lessons on the art of living. In this week’s Sundays with Seneca series...

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here:  https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome to another edition of the Dying Every Day series, which delivers guided Stoic meditations on the art of living. This episode is available to all subscribers (although not every episode in the series is); if you enjoy it, please consider becoming a Perennial Meditations member on Substack. There, yo...

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here:  https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to the Sundays with Seneca series on Perennial Meditations, which explores Lucius Annaeus Seneca’s writings and Stoic philosophy. Each meditation includes selected passages from one of Seneca’s letters in search of ancient lessons on the art of living. In this week’s Sundays with Seneca series...

Sundays with Seneca explores Lucius Annaeus Seneca's writings and Stoic philosophy. Each week, I share a selected reading from one of Seneca's letters in search of ancient lessons on the art of living. In a letter known today as Some Arguments in Favor of the Simple Life , Seneca wrote, “I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.” I shall not add how that happened, lest you may reckon this also as ano...

The Dying Every Day series delivers guided meditations on the art of living. Each meditation provides a quote, a selected passage (from an original Stoic text), and a reflection prompt to consider. These meditations are designed to help you (and me) reflect on what it means to live a good life. Change is the Only Constant “The river where you set your foot just now is gone—those waters giving way...

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome to Perennial Meditations, a podcast (and newsletter) by the Perennial Leader Project - an organization dedicated to providing tools for the art of living. To learn more and subscribe to our newsletter, visit perennial.substack.com . ---  🖇️ Stay Connected: · Twitter: https://twitter.com/PerennialPod...

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome to Perennial Meditations, a podcast (and newsletter) by the Perennial Leader Project - an organization dedicated to providing tools for the art of living. To learn more and read the transcript from this episode, visit perennial.substack.com . For full episodes of In Search of Wisdom, subscribe on Ap...

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📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Here is the latest Monday Muse with an audio meditation from the Dying Every Day series, a perennial reminder, insight, reflection, and a recommendation to consider. Be wise and be well this week! For full episodes of In Search of Wisdom, subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or wherever you get your podc...

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe 💀 Welcome to another episode of the Dying Every Day series, part of the Monday Muse email on Perennial Meditations. This series delivers Stoic meditations on the art of living. Each meditation provides a quote, a selected passage, and a daily exercise to consider contemplating. 🎧 For more tools, subscribe...

📩 Want daily meditations (and courses) on the art of living? Sign up for Perennial Meditations: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Regarding the art of transformation, the topic of our new series is Becoming Every Day ; it is essential that we are able to work with the mind skillfully. This series offers brief guided meditations (with many ideas and concepts) connected with our upcoming cou...

📩 Want daily meditations (and courses) on the art of living? Sign up for Perennial Meditations: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Pardon the interruption from our regular Sundays with Seneca series. Today, I’m sharing a selected reading from what is often referred to as The Stoic Manual for Living or Enchiridion by Epictetus. It’s part of a new project I’ve been working on called Perennial...

In this episode, my guest is Dr. Brian Russell, the author of Centering Prayer . The episode is a recent recording from our last virtual meetup on The Art (and Wisdom) of Contemplative Practices , which was part of our Perennial Habits course. Brian is a professor of biblical studies and a transformational coach for pastors and spiritually-minded professionals. You can learn more and connect with...

📩 Want daily meditations (and courses) on the art of living? Sign up for Perennial Meditations: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe In a letter known today as On the Fear of Death , Seneca wrote, "I have already ceased to be anxious about you. “Whom then of the gods,” you ask, “have you found as your voucher?” A god, let me tell you, who deceives no one—a soul in love with that which is upri...

📩 Want daily wisdom? Sign up for Perennial Meditations to receive ancient lessons for modern life: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe The late spiritual teacher Ram Dass told a story of when he asked his guru about the path to wisdom. His guru responded, “Feed people.” Ram Dass, not entirely satisfied with his answer, rephrased the question to “How does one become enlightened?” To this ques...

📩 Want daily wisdom? Sign up for Perennial Meditations to receive ancient lessons for modern life: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe What should we do about anxiety? Does anxiety stand in the way of finding peace and tranquility? In part 1 of our series, Peace is the Project; we discussed learning to relax . And how, in truth, learning to relax is often far more challenging than it sounds....

📩 Want daily wisdom? Sign up for Perennial Meditations to receive ancient lessons for modern life: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome to Sundays with Seneca on the Perennial Meditations podcast. Join the search for ancient lessons on the art of living from the writings and Stoic philosophy of Lucius Annaeus Seneca. In a letter known today as On Ill-Health and Endurance of Suffering...

📩 Want daily wisdom? Sign up for Perennial Meditations to receive ancient lessons for modern life: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome to Sundays with Seneca on the Perennial Meditations podcast. Join the search for ancient lessons on the art of living from the writings and Stoic philosophy of Lucius Annaeus Seneca. In a letter known today as On Meeting Death Cheerfully , Seneca wrot...

📩 Want daily wisdom? Sign up for Perennial Meditations to receive ancient lessons for modern life: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Today’s episode is a follow-up to a previous meditation titled; The Sun is Always Shining and Three Ways to Say “Yes” to Life . One reader raised a thoughtful and essential question: How should we think about happiness, suffering, or gratitude amid physical p...

📩 Want daily wisdom? Sign up for Perennial Meditations to receive ancient lessons for modern life: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe The devotional Remember Your Death , by Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble, opens with the words, “You are going to die.” Sr. Noble writes, "The moment you are born you begin dying. You may die in fifty years, ten years, perhaps tomorrow — or even today. But whenever...

Do you have someone in your life (past or present) that you look to as an example of virtue in action? The Stoics did. They turned to the life of figures like Socrates and Cato. Similarly, many spiritual traditions have great Saints and theologians as models or guides to follow. In a passage from the Enchiridion , Epictetus says, “From now on, then, resolve to live as a grown-up who is making prog...