Shot of Philosophy

"it really matters who we admire, for celebrities influence our outlook, ideas and conduct. And bad heroes give glamour to flaws of character." - Great Thinkers by The School of Life --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

Some of my posts on LinkedIn are in line with some main themes of the podcast, let's connect! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"Beauty can educate our souls. Plato sees art as therapeutic: it is the duty of poets and painters (and, nowadays, novelists, television producers and designers) to help us lead good lives." - Great Thinkers by The School of Life --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"In Plato's eyes, love is in essence a kind of education: you couldn't really love someone if you didn't want to be improved by them. Love should be two people trying to grow together- and helping each other to do so." - Great Thinkers by The School of Life --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"Plato proposed that our lives go wrong in large part because we almost never give ourselves time to think carefully about logically about our plans." - The School of Life --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

Eudaimonia: "The peculiar but fascinating Greek word is a little hard to translate. It almost means 'happiness; but is really closer to 'fulfillment," because 'happiness' suggests continuous chirpiness- whereas 'fulfillment' is more compatible with periods of great pain and suffering- which seem to be an unavoidable part even of a good life." - Great Thinkers by The School of Life --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"... all the days of the past will come to your call: you can detain and inspect them at your will- something which the preoccupied have no time to do." - Seneca --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"Why do you linger? Why are you idle? If you don't grasp it first, it flees. And even if you do grasp it, it will still flee. So you must match time's swiftness with your speed in using it and you must drink quickly as though from a rapid stream that will not always flow." - Seneca --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"The whole of the future lies in uncertainty: live immediately." - Seneca --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"Meanwhile death will arrive, and you have no choice in making yourself available for that." - Seneca --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"When will vacation come? Everyone hustles their life along, and is troubled by a longing for the future and weariness of the present. But the person who spends all of their time on their own needs, who organizes every day as though it were their last, neither longs for nor fears the next day." - Seneca --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"Finally, it is generally agreed that no activity can be successfully pursued by an individual who is preoccupied- since the mind when distracted absorbs nothing deeply, but rejects everything which is, so to speak, crammed into it." - Seneca --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

We need activities that we do for our own sake and for their own sake. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"If by chance they achieve some tranquility, just as a swell remains on the deep sea even after the wind has dropped, so they go on tossing about and never find rest from their desires." - Seneca --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"Many pursue no fixed goal, but are tossed about in every changing designs by a fickleness which is shifting, inconstant and never satisfied with itself. Some have no aims for their life's course, but death takes them unawares as they yawn languidly- so much so that I cannot doubt the truth of that oracular remark of the greatest of poets 'It is a small part of life we really live." - Seneca --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"Fasting" "Fast from thoughts, fast: thoughts are like the lion and the wild ass; people's hearts are the thickets they haunt. Fasting is the first principle of health; restraint is superior to medication; scratching only aggravates the itch. Fast, and behold the strength of the spirit." --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

“People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.” - Seneca --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"...inertia recharges the mind." - Rumi --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"And of all your skills, and wealth and handicraft, weren't they first merely a thought and a quest?" - Rumi --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"How have you spent your life?" - Rumi --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"Life without music would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"By God, don't linger in any spiritual benefit you have gained, but yearn for more- like someone whose thirst for water is never quenched." - Rumi --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"Joy is hidden beneath sorrow." - Rumi --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"If anybody goes traveling without a guide, every two days' journey becomes a journey of a hundred years." - Rumi --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"At times I would say I had self-control. At times I felt like a prisoner of myself. All that's passed. I'm no longer captivated by myself. The lesson I took from all this: not to be taken by myself." - Rumi --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"What is a rebel? Someone who says no" - Albert Camus --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"First thing in the morning, we should go over in advance what we have to do during the day, and decide on the ideas that will guide us." - Epictetus --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"Books are training weights for the mind." - Epictetus --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"Yes, keep on degrading yourself, soul. But soon your chance at dignity will be gone. Everyone gets one life. Yours is almost used up, and instead of treating yourself with respect, you have entrusted your own happiness to the souls of others." - Marcus Aurelius --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"Look into their minds, at what the wise do and what they don't" - Marcus Aurelius --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"Take care of this moment, this person, this challenge, this action." -Epictetus --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"15 minutes of attention is better than a great many good works." - Simone Weil --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"Paper is more patient than people." - Anne Frank --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"When anger rises, think of the consequences." - Confucius --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

Festina Lente: To rush, slowly. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"The sun is new each day." -Heraclitus --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"People exist for one another. You can instruct them or endure them." - Marcus Aurelius --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"How often has the unexpected happened! How often has the expected never happened!" - Seneca --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"... search for its hidden opportunity. It's a failure of imagination not to do so." -Epictetus --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"..if you won't keep track of what your own soul's doing, how can you not be unhappy?" - Marcus Aurelius --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"Look inward. Don't let the true nature or value of anything elude you." - Marcus Aurelius --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter." - Marcus Auerlius --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"Thoughts committed to paper represent a record of our mind at its most attentive." - The Socrates Express by Eric Weiner --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

"We only like to count our troubles, but we do not count our joys." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

A great exercise inspired by Seneca from A Handbook for New Stoics by Massimo Pigliucci and Gregory Lopez. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

Some thoughts from The School of Life, Friedrich Nietzsche, Seneca, Epictetus and Ryan Holiday on how to be less anxious. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

Some insight from Seneca, Pierre Hadot and Marcus Aurelius along with a personal practice for living in the moment more attentively. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

Some advice from Marcus Aurelius on what is essential for a good life. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

Some thoughts on planning a new summer philosophy class and the power of reminders in daily life. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

Some advice from Marcus Aurelius on not being ashamed to ask for help. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support

More advice from Thich Nhat Hanh --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/shotofphilosophy/support