There’s a Rhythm. There’s a Rhythm.

It can feel like everything is falling to pieces. It can feel like you’re lost. It can feel like there’s no hope, no way forward, nothing to do. But that’s just because you’ve gotten rattled.🎥 Watch the video episodes on The Daily Stoic YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DailyStoic/videos🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoicpodcast✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/📱 Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook 📢 Share | ⚙️ Manage Subscription

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• 0:00Ryan Holiday?

  Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

• 0:14Ryan Holiday?

  There's a rhythm. There's a rhythm. It can feel like everything is falling to pieces. It can feel like you're lost. It can feel like there's no hope, no way forward, nothing to do. But that's just because you're rattled. That's just because you've gotten turned around. "When jarred unavoidably by circumstances," Marcus Rilis reminds himself in meditations, "we must revert at once to ourselves. Don't lose the rhythm more than you can help," he says. "You'll have a better grasp of the harmony if you can keep going back to it." What is this harmony he speaks of? Probably the same one that Bonnie Vares sings in their song of the same name.

• 1:43Ryan Holiday?

  The Stoics called this rhythm the logos, was the way, the word, the harmony of the universe and a life in accordance with nature, was the master plan, was the thing we didn't know we needed, but of course we did. It was this rhythm that Zeno got back when he lost everything in a shipwreck, accepting that he was meant for something other than the merchant's trade. It was this that Marcus Rilis tried to put his faith in after the funerals, after the betrayals, after the twists of fate. We ourselves must understand that there is a rhythm. Inevitably, we will be jarred and scarred and kicked around by fortune, but we can always reclaim this rhythm and the harmony found within it. We can always revert to ourselves.

• 2:26Ryan Holiday?

  It's how we get tall, find a new way forward.