Spirituality for Living

We Belong In Being

You can internally think about 'doing the right thing' with every little thing that you do, or that happens. It’s exhausting. Exhausting and crippling. Who has succeeded by conscience alone? Anyone? And those who complain of never succeeding, are they people of weak conscience? What is conscience but learned values/ideals? Exactly, ...

Engage the World

We have not one drive, but two. A will to self preservation and fear, but also a will to power. Courage. A motivation to engage the world. Some soldiers do actually want to see the battle won, and we in our civilian life are not taught to really back up our ...

Greater Awareness

Courage is not a well understood factor of life, but we do experience it anyway. It’s a pretty important part of life, so it might profit us to understand it. Courage is often seen in negative definition only, and that tends to distort it. This is courage as it relates to fear, but ...

Wisdom of Courage

The wisdom of courage is just accepting the instability of life. That what you know is already there. Accepting your own limitations, even if you don’t understand them, and living your life anyway. Because really, that life you are living, do you really own it? Do you control it, really? ...

Courage to Act

Courage is a very simple thing, and yet we don’t really tackle it much. What is courage really? Is it some special strength of character that some have and others don’t? It seems we never think we have it ourselves, but we like to put it on others often to their ...

Stoic Practice

Stoicism did have 'enlightened' Stoics. The goal of a Stoic was to become a Sage. A Sage was someone who sees reality clearly, and is troubled by nothing. He is thus empowered to impart this knowledge to others, as well as always being able to take the right action. They did in a ...

Stoic Fate

There is a missing element that modern Stoics don’t usually embrace. The Hegemon, or logos, is still alive and aware in the world. The world is itself possessed of intelligence in the original Stoic view. They saw life as a constant dialogue, a "debate" if you will, with that intelligence. ...