I just finished the rough draft for the second new chapter, based on "Of Anger" by Seneca. I think it came out alright, but I had to cut out so much to get it down to a reasonable length for a video, it broke my heart a little! Some of the best material made it into the new chapter, but a lot of it did not, so I'm also going to share my list of passages that I pulled out as especially important. I think this is Seneca's most beautiful work, so it really is worth reading the longer versions!
The full text is 37k words - https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Of_Anger/Book_I
My notes are 25k words - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LWIUfVA-KB68eT7rMBqzExDsuiBAreY7hFGSwKAklgw/edit?usp=sharing
The new chapter is 3.7k words - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o2OrT6K1BEDW3GYmVE-LBfrI3_pz186EcOrDE2db_4M/edit?usp=sharing
I'd love it if you could read though the new chapter and let me know what you think.
I'm going to stop using this site and switch over to a more interactive version at community.stoalogos.com. Please use the link below to join!
Join us this Sunday, December 29th for the forty-sixth Sunday Stoa!
We'll kick things off at 4pm EST with 10 minutes of guided meditation, followed by 15 minutes of reflection journaling or doing a Stoic writing practice. If you'd like to skip the meditation and journaling, please join us at 4:30pm. After that, we'll use a combination of break out groups and larger group discussion to go deeper into a specific topic.
This weeks theme is progress: we'll be listening to Letter 32 from Seneca's Letters from a Stoic, and Book 1, Chapter 4 of the Discourses of Epictetus, and then discussing the ideas they puts forth.
Here's the and text if you want to check it out before Sunday:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_32
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Join us this Sunday, December 22nd for the forty-fifth Sunday Stoa!
We'll kick things off at 4pm EST with 10 minutes of guided meditation, followed by 15 minutes of reflection journaling or doing a Stoic writing practice. If you'd like to skip the meditation and journaling, please join us at 4:30pm. After that, we'll use a combination of break out groups and larger group discussion to go deeper into a specific topic.
This week, we'll be listening to Letter 18 from Seneca's Letters from a Stoic, On Festivals and Fasting, and then discussing the ideas it puts forth.
Here's the video and text if you want to check it out before Sunday:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_18
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If you're all caught up on your meditation and journaling and want to skip right to the discussion, please join at 4:30pm
