To Wrong One Is To Wrong All

"It’s easy to forget. It’s easy to think small. But this life is not just about us. Our loyalty and duty is not just to ourselves, to our family, or to our immediate neighbors. The Stoics believed that we were all one."***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better. Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow @DailyStoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryanholidayInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanholiday/Facebook: http://facebook.com/ryanholidayYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. 📢 Share | ⚙️ Manage Subscription

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• 0:06Ryan Holiday?

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• 0:29Ryan Holiday?

  To wrong one is to wrong all. It's easy to forget. It's easy to think small. But this life is not just about us. Our loyalty and duty is not just to ourselves, to our family, or to our immediate neighbors. The Stoics believed that we were all one. Marcus Aurelius referred repeatedly to the hive. He spoke of being part of one large community. Dozens of times, he talks of the common good and how to wrong one is to wrong all, and to do good for one is to do good for all, that to do good for others is to do good for yourself. Seneca spoke of "sympathia," the interconnectedness of all people. He spoke of the need for kindness, for compassion, for understanding, for forgiveness. You

• 1:12Ryan Holiday?

  might not think that a death in the streets of Georgia, or a police killing in Minnesota, or immigrant children have much impact on your safety. You might think that these situations are complicated. You might question the other side's political motivations. You might think that the media inflames things. And that all may be true, but it doesn't change the facts. This is your problem. It's everyone's problem. Martin Luther King Jr. perfectly expressed that Stoic concept of interconnectivity and interdependence. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

• 1:57Ryan Holiday?

  You cannot turn away from that. You cannot let this be partisan. You cannot close your heart to this. When people are being wronged, you are being wronged. We all are. We can disagree about the solution, but we have to insist on one. We have to fight for one, like true Stoics. Hey, thanks for listening to the Daily Stoic Podcast. You can sign up to get our daily email at dailystoic.com/email. I also encourage you, if you want to take your practice of Stoicism to the next level, to sign up for Daily Stoic Life, which is our members-only program. It's got all sorts of awesome benefits. You can check that out at dailystoiclife.com.