If you could sit on a star and watch the planets dance around the sun, you’d bear witness to a Stoic truth: the world is meant to be in harmony.
The universe is intelligent, rational, and ordered.
As a piece of the world, a fragment of this intelligence resides within you.
You have a role in establishing harmony.
Life is a play in which we all take part, and our duty is to play our part well.
In this video, we’ll discuss the teachings of Epictetus: a Stoic philosopher who can help us achieve a life of harmony.
By acknowledging that a fragment of the world’s intelligence resides within you, you also acknowledge that most of it doesn’t.
This means that most things in life are out of your control.
You can’t decide whether you get sick or not.
You can’t decide whether someone hires you.
