Re:What If Unhappiness Contains the Secret to Happiness?
by barleymash on Monday May 06, 2019 @11:06AM
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Any reading on stoicism that you recommend?
Re:What If Unhappiness Contains the Secret to Happiness?
by intertextuality on Monday May 06, 2019 @11:22AM
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Marcus Aurelius Meditations: A New Translation by Gregory Hays.
The Discourses of Epictetus
Re:What If Unhappiness Contains the Secret to Happiness?
by eswat on Monday May 06, 2019 @12:38PM
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The two books mentioned already are good source material. If you want a modern – some would argue watered-down – take then A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine is good reading.
Being stoic doesn’t mean not expressing your feelings.
Issues that someone would have to bottle up because it introduces entropy in their feelings about life might be a non-issue/non-existent to a stoic. i.e. why get angry and express my feelings if someone that cuts me off on the highway, when I’ve learned not to care about such events? There’s plenty of other things a stoic can express their feeling about.