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    How to Follow Reason: An Examination of Itself

    How to Follow Reason - “But what, then, is the admirable thing? To understand the will of nature.” Epictetus The Discourses, Book 1, Chapter 17.13

    How to follow reason is an examination of itself and of Discourse 1.17 or Epictetus’s teaching by Arrian. And how to interpret nature.

    Benny Voncken 3 December 20233 December 2023 Reflections, The Discourses Of Epictetus By Arrian No Comments Read more

    Attachments: How to Find the Right Balance

    Attachments: How to Find the Right Balance “In short, then, remember this, that if you attach value to anything outside the sphere of choice, you destroy that choice.” Epictetus - The Discourses, Book 4, Chapter 4.23

    Attachments and learning to find the right balance between your life and the externals you are connected to. What do the Stoics teach us?

    Benny Voncken 27 November 202327 November 2023 Reflections No Comments Read more

    How to Become and Stay Sober: A Stoic Journey

    How to Become and Stay Sober. “Not to assume it’s impossible because you find it hard. But to recognize that if it’s humanly possible, you can do it too.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 6.19

    How to become and stay sober shows my journey to quitting alcohol and how Stoicism and great examples helped me stay on track.

    Benny Voncken 19 November 202319 November 2023 Reflections 1 Comment Read more

    Five Stoic Quotes to Change Your Life

    five Stoic Quotes to Change your Life “Do not ask things to happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and your life will go smoothly.” Epictetus, The Handbook, 8

    Here is my list of five Stoic quotes to change your life. Are you looking for motivation or inspiration, use these to help you.

    Benny Voncken 12 November 202312 November 2023 Reflections No Comments Read more

    What We Are Born For

    What we Are Born for “I am not thinking of great things for the moment, but the simple fact that milk is produced from grass, cheese from milk, and wool from skins.” Epictetus

    In what we are born for looks at Discourse 1.16. we learn to see the signs of nature and to be grateful for her and the little things.

    Benny Voncken 6 November 20236 November 2023 Reflections, The Discourses Of Epictetus By Arrian No Comments Read more

    What Does Philosophy Promise?

    What Does Philosophy Promise? “In every circumstance I will preserve the governing part in accord with nature.” Epictetus

    What does philosophy promise is a deep dive into book 1.15 of the Discourses of Epictetus. What is the result and where should our focus be?

    Benny Voncken 29 October 20236 November 2023 Reflections, The Discourses Of Epictetus By Arrian No Comments Read more

    How it is all connected

    How it is all connected “Do you not think that all things are bound together in a unity?” Epictetus

    How it is all connected is a multi-layered discourse. It shows us a deeper look into Epictetus’s idea of god and our part in the universe.

    Benny Voncken 14 October 20236 November 2023 Reflections, The Discourses Of Epictetus By Arrian 1 Comment Read more

    How to Treat Others

    How to Treat Others

    How to treat others is a discourse that shows us the right way to see those around us. They’re our kin and so are we of the gods.

    Benny Voncken 24 September 202324 September 2023 Reflections, The Discourses Of Epictetus By Arrian No Comments Read more

    How to Be Content

    How to be content. “For he is free for whom all things happen in accordance with his choice, and whom no one can restrain.” Epictetus

    How to be content is a journey via the gods to learn to live in accordance with nature. It teaches us to be free and accept fate.

    Benny Voncken 17 September 202317 September 2023 Reflections, The Discourses Of Epictetus By Arrian No Comments Read more

    On Our Judgment

    On Our Judgment “It is necessary for you to become a student, that creature which every one laughs at, if you really desire to make an examination of your judgments.” Epictetus

    On Our Judgment shows how we can discover what is right or wrong. This Discourse by Epictetus teaches us to find the truth and accept fate.

    Benny Voncken 10 September 202315 September 2023 Reflections, The Discourses Of Epictetus By Arrian No Comments Read more
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