BONUS | Someone Else Is Spinning The Thread

No amount of prosperity, no amount of difficulty is certain or forever. A triumph becomes a trial. A trial becomes a triumph. Life can change in an instant. Thenew 10th Anniversary Edition of https://store.dailystoic.com/pages/the-daily-stoic-10The Daily Stoic https://store.dailystoic.com/pages/the-daily-stoic-10https://store.dailystoic.com/pages/the-daily-stoic-10is out NOW! 👉 Grabhttps://store.dailystoic.com/pages/the-daily-stoic-10your copy here: https://store.dailystoic.com/pages/the-daily-stoic-10 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

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

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  November 6th, someone else is spinning the thread.

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  If the breaking day sees someone proud, the ending day sees them brought low. No one should put too much trust in triumph. No one should give up hope of trials improving. Clotho mixes one with the other and stops fortune from resting, spinning every fate around. No one has had so much divine favor that they could guarantee themselves tomorrow. God keeps our lives hurtling on, spinning in a whirlwind. Seneca, Thestes, verse 613.

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  The news came one day that Seneca was to be exiled. Yet, some eight years later, a letter came recalling him to Rome to tutor the future emperor. Unexpected events can be good as well as bad. The gods giveth and taketh away. Specifically to the ancients, Clotho, one of the three Greek goddesses of fate who spins the thread of human life. To the ancients, she was the one who decided the course of events in our lives, some good, some bad. Surrender yourself completely to Clotho, Marcus really reminded himself. Let

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  her spin your web out of whatever events she wishes. This resigned attitude might seem strange to us today, but even the most powerful man in the world understood who was really in control. Not him, not us. No amount of prosperity, no amount of difficulty is certain or forever. A triumph becomes a trial. A trial becomes a triumph. Life can change in an instant. Remember today how often it does.

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