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“This is what you should teach me, how to be like Odysseus—how to love my country, wife and father, and how, even after suffering shipwreck, I might keep sailing on course to those honorable ends.”

—SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 88.7b

In our busy lives, it is easy to overlook our duty to learn and embrace God's word. Yet, faithfulness to this duty is crucial. Scripture provides guidance, comfort, and wisdom, helping us navigate life's challenges. By dedicating time daily to read and meditate on the Bible, we deepen our relationship with God and fortify our spiritual foundation. Neglecting this responsibility weakens our faith and distances us from His love and teachings. Let us commit to making God's word a priority, faithfully studying and living by its truths, thereby honoring Him and enriching our lives with His eternal wisdom.

In life, we often seek guidance on how to navigate challenges and adversities, striving to uphold values of love, commitment, and resilience. The quote, “This is what you should teach me, how to be like Odysseus—how to love my country, wife and father, and how, even after suffering shipwreck, I might keep sailing on course to those honorable ends,” encapsulates the essence of learning from legendary figures to shape our character and actions.

Romans Overview Part 1

Changing Your Perspective

Many people consider addiction to be a problem of personal weakness, initiated for self-gratification and continued because of an unwillingness or lack of sufficient willpower to stop. However, within the medical and scientific communities, the notion that pleasure-seeking exclusively drives addiction has fallen by the wayside. Clinicians and scientists alike now think that many people engage in potentially addictive activities to escape discomfort — both physical and emotional. People typically engage in psychoactive experiences to feel good and to feel better. The roots of addiction reside in activities associated with sensation seeking and self-medication.

People allude to addiction in everyday conversation, casually referring to themselves as "chocolate addicts" or "workaholics." However, addiction is not a term clinicians take lightly. You might be surprised to learn that until the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5), the term addiction did not appear in any version of the American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic manual, the reference book that physicians and psychotherapists use to identify and classify mental health disorders. In this most recent edition, addiction is included as a category and contains both substance use disorders and non-substance use disorders, such as alcohol use disorder and gambling disorder, respectively.

Seneca, Paul, and Bishop DD

The first daily stoic is actually a tricky one.

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In my opinion, a lot of what happens to us everyday is profoundly affected by the decisions we made in the past. The sum of all those decisions has an enormous influence in what will happen to us today.

Thus, apart from purely external, random events (forces of nature, accidents, etc), I would say that most events are the result of our actions. That, of course, doesn’t mean that we are in control of them anymore. We certainly cannot undo those choices, but we can change our decisions to influence the future.

Dwayne Johnson - He’s one of Hollywood’s highest paid actors, but “The Rock” recently opened up about depression to the Express, a British newspaper. “Struggle and pain is real,” said Johnson, who saved his mother from a suicide attempt when he was 15. “Depression never discriminates,” he tweeted later. “Took me a long time to realize it but the key is to not be afraid to open up. Especially us dudes have a tendency to keep it in. You’re not alone.”

The Daily Stoic for December 27th, “Don’t Let Your Soul Go First”.

“It’s a disgrace in this life when the soul surrenders first while the body refuses to.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.29

Do you run? If you do, you probably know that the mind -especially at the beginning- is weaker than the body. When you are running, it gets to a point, sooner or later, when you start feeling tired and your mind begs you to stop.

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What does the bible say?

Psalm 42

5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.

7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

sources:

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/dwayne-rock-johnson-shares-struggles-depression/story?id=99320228

https://micropreneur.life/dont-let-your-soul-go-first/

https://www.bible.com/bible/1/PSA.30.KJV

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Marcus Aurelius Agree it"s: ‘Unrealistic’ humans alone in universe “Think of the whole universe of matter and how small your share. Think about the expanse of time and how brief—almost momentary—the part marked for you. Think of the workings of fate and how infinitesimal your role.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.24

More than half of all Americans believe intelligent life exists on other planets, according to NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ polling, and you can count astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson among them.

Tyson said Monday on “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” it would be “unrealistic” to “demand of the universe that we are alone.”

“I can tell you that I wouldn’t be terrified if the universe were filled with life. I mean, that’d be great. We’re here. That would be just fine,” Tyson said. “Let’s learn more about them.”

Episode 15: What comes to us all

A simple way to measure our days