the success of our values over simply social trends survival at any price the success of our ability to think about massification the success of the human condition over the animalized condition that we are often offered when we create this as success and this as failure we are coinciding with what the Stoics said, what depends on us , what does not depend on us, our success and our failure would depend on us and with both we would learn and we would always be growing, now a success based on competition , victory over others, built about other people's failure is one of the elements of society's decomposition, stoicism would certainly lead us to this reflection discover the power of stoicism with the stoic counselor you seek emotional balance inner strength and wisdom to face everyday challenges so the stoic counselor is the perfect channel for you in it we unveil timeless teachings from philosophers such as Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius bringing practical reflections to transform your life sign up now and start your journey of self development with powerful insights and daily inspirations don't leave it for later what can change your life today the link to sign up is in the pinned comment, well everyone knows stoicism is a phenomenon that goes on from about three hundred years before Christ to approximately five hundred and twenty-nine years after Christ, the time of the Edict of Justinian, this is the period in which he had his his existence had its greatest brilliance in the Latin period , that is, Roman, this is more or less the historical fact , but I think that at this moment, stoicism far transcends the historical fact, which what he brings to us is an idea and as an idea it is timeless it can be followed applied at any historical moment and my idea is to bring here to you some of these brilliant aspects that I believe could renew any historical moment where they applied if we were Firstly, taking for example the practice of virtue , that is, an unassailable morality and the practice of virtue as a meaning of life and teaching through example, we don't need to say much to realize that in our historical moment we are trained to be technically qualified and not humanly good we are concerned about being examples for those who follow us, we don't see how much our example impacts the people around us, morals , ethics are not the objective of life , nor are they the objective of our teaching, our education, so if we take the phrase of Socrates who inspires the Stoics so much when he said that knowledge is only fair when it makes us better, only knowledge that makes us better is valid and basically we break with this principle in our days, education does not necessarily form a better human being, it makes the more prepared for the job market and just that, another thing is the so-called serenity in the face of adversity, the ability to come out on the other side, perhaps even better than we came in, this ability that is typical of the Stoics, this serenity, this serene happiness that is eudaimonia, it allows the Stoic to remain serene and know going through adversities, growing with them and not just knowing how to resist, not just surviving but accepting and growing with difficulties, it's as if we put ourselves in front of a difficulty and said that I only come out on the other side bigger than I came in and they had this ability, another element that I find quite interesting is always giving your best , that is, the pursuit of excellence every day, leaving the past a little aside as nostalgia as memory the future as an expectation and being fully in the present day, that is, the search for excellence in each day, living each day as if it were the last , that is, this vital importance for the present moment to be complete in what we do, which ultimately what we have is neither the present nor the future will be great if we do not we dedicate to it we have today the stress society where we are always running after things that are never here and logically in most cases we either do the minimum necessary or we do the maximum merely for the sake of highlighting personal advantages and not as a philosophy of life, that is, the Stoics leave us this practice as a philosophy of life, another element is nature as cosmos, for a Stoic, nature was not a mere catch, a mere set of coincidences, it was ordered in such a way that each part has a meaning when find your place and the search of the Stoics was exactly to find their place as human beings, this is very reminiscent of the Platonic concept of justice, each thing in its place, order as one of the fundamental elements so that each person can realize their identity, that is, the universe as cosmos has already generated another very interesting characteristic which is love Fati love for what is happening is not simply the acceptance of what is happening it is love, love for each event so you can say good but there are moments that are terrible moments of war moments that are terribly difficult for human beings as love them? we can love the opportunity they give us to overcome themselves, including the opportunity they give us to grow, the opportunity to say in the face of these moments, if it's up to me, they will never happen again , in other words, they have a mentality that the way to confront adversity and difficulties are not with hate as we think today the way to demolish the things we don't like has to be beating through hate they saw it as love, Fati love the understanding of each moment the acceptance of each moment and seeking to love every moment that nature gives us as not being casual, the other element is what Emperor Marcus Aurelius said , nothing happens, it is man that is not characteristic of man, so logically what happens to me is attracted by my personal power , by my need for growth, it would come to me anyway, by a factor or on the other hand, but I would need to go through that in my growth process, when we admit this, we break with a terrible habit of our historical era, which is victimization, there is always someone to blame for what I am, there is always a transference to third quarters and fifths of all that that I am I do not assume the reins of my life and not taking them makes me give up the opportunity for growth , in other words, this is precious advice that stoicism gives us something else that is quite interesting, they also said that there is something that depends on us and that that does not depend on us , we constantly clash against that which does not depend on us and we pay very little attention to that which depends on us if we consider it within a situation For example, if I get into a traffic jam and at that moment I'm in a hurry to get somewhere, I'm constantly protesting against the traffic , against the administration of that city, who don't take action against other people's driving, which isn't efficient, constantly protesting against that. that doesn't depend on me and what depends on me, which would be leaving home half an hour early, I never do anything.
This is just a simple example , but it shows us more or less how we live, what we can do, what is in our hands, change, no. we do absolutely nothing but we are always charging those we cannot charge what we cannot change some change Great epithet Epictetus who is our stoic philosopher one of the great stoic philosophers Epictetus he said that this is the concept of slavery slavery sometimes they said to him you are not a philosopher you are a mere slave which in fact he was and he said do you know what it is to be a slave? It's what depends on you not doing anything and what doesn't depend on cursing against destiny.
If we take Epictetus' concept seriously, we will see that we are, in general, very slaves, what depends on us? What have we done in relation to what depends on us? If we could imagine a humanity of eight billion human beings all doing what depends on them with full present and excellence in each moment, what would humanity be?
is also a great example to be considered good, if we could summarize we would see virtues as moral resilience excellence virtues of all kinds as a goal of life quality of life happiness, eudaimonia lies in the practice of virtues a great harmony with nature a desire for If you integrate with it the stoic serenity that the inability to let external factors disturb you and also the great responsibility for what they did and what depended on them for the course of their own life as a result of their own need, it is clear that facing the living this way at any historical moment builds a much better, much more qualified future without us being anxious about the future we generate the appropriate seeds for the future through these very simple and practical observations from this school that teaches us to live as human beings properly That said, this is what I would like to leave you with as a little morning inspiration. I thank the senator once again for the opportunity to speak. I keep imagining the future, I have often asked myself how it is that every man loves himself more than all other men, but it gives Do you value your own opinion less than that of others?
Marcus Aurelius Roman emperor I keep imagining the future if some archaeologist tried to discover our civilization and find out what it thought from our lives nothing was written, all that was left was the history of our lives, what would they deduce that our ideas were? perhaps it would not be equivalent to what we think are our ideas we always face the old dilemma there is even a biblical passage that talks about it, through your works I will know you we are all full of wonderful ideas then philosophy inspires us to have contact with the great ideas from history but philosophy also inspires us to live them, so we have a very difficult time bringing our ideas into practice even if they are very well intentioned, even if there is this righteousness of intentions , in practice we continue to act in a way, as Professor Luiz Carlos said, which is more for animal consciousness than for human consciousness, which is why I draw attention so that we stop and think and ask yourself what we really believe because what we leave as a trail when we move is what we really believe, then move on to questioning where we sit with ourselves and ask ourselves, do I really believe in these ideas? Is this really my guide in life?
or I simply have an intellectual world to give answers to intellectual questions but in practice I live completely supported by the animal "I" because I believe that in this historical context that is what works so if I am in a difficult situation , well, Plato did not live in the 20th century and one didn't know what that was, what he says is not useful here , it has to be my way and my way is the one we received from birth, which is always take advantage of everything, always try to free only your skin, always try to being in the first place on the podium alone or this is the way you created this chaotic situation we are in and this is the way we continue to believe and continue to respond to life through them , so what I call attention to is that everyone tries to see, as Professor Luiz Carlos said very well, what their real values are, try to look in his wake and see what he really believes is what is fundamental so that we can change the world, change each one of us, nature does not make leaps and there is no way to change humanity, change institutions, institutions, legal entities are fantasies , what truly exist are human beings to change humanity without changing values of each human being one by one it is a utopia it is crazy that it will never happen that we are always waiting for a change from legal entities and institutions when we ourselves do not propose to change our life values it is an illusion and what exactly philosophy proposes is transform yourself know yourself transform yourself so that we can build a world supported by values I really like a passage from a platonic dialogue which is Critias where Socrates comes to a certain character who was a sophist and say don't run away from the debate because if you convince me that this is the correct idea tomorrow you will find me on the street living what you said I think that is very beautiful if someone convinces me that this is the right way to live tomorrow they will find me on the street Living in this way, this ability to bring true ideas into practice, believing in them actually means transforming the values in terms of which we live and not just in terms of which we give our opinion in an intellectual way, honoring the truths with practice, as another ancient and very important thinker said, is this in an era where constant change and uncertainty seem to be the only certainties stoic teachings offer a beacon of wisdom that helps us navigate the turbulent waters of existence ask me what has been my progress? I started to be friends with myself Seneca summarizing I could say that in the vast majority of cases I believe that all these processes behind them there is a phrase "if life is just that, I don't care" I think that this statement is behind all these cases, if life is just that, it doesn't interest me, just that life is not just that , and that is the great observation that we would have to make for it to have flavor, for it to have meaning and Don't think about these extreme resources, we see that in nature everything plays a role , plants realize themselves by carrying out photosynthesis , carrying out gas exchange with their environment , animals realize themselves by exercising survival instincts to perpetuate the species, man fulfills himself by having values, exercising these values, building himself own and changing the world through these values when society offers nothing that can point him in that direction help him discover that direction anguish is inevitable because we are incomplete beings we are half beings as Khalil Gibran said in poetry when we make wine with grudging will we only kill half of the thirst of those who drink it when we live with this limited will we only kill half of our needs material and human needs start to scream then society already has all the escape routes prepared you are distressed come here consume more then consumerism comes here it comes the criticism then comes the television programs Big Brother, the soap opera, that's not all there is , social media, everyone looking at what the other is doing in the other's life, well, it's not possible, we even end up with drugs as an addiction and sometimes we even end up with self-destruction as a point end of this process of simulating the life of escaping from the life of creating something artificial that frees us from this boredom of just surviving, the human being did not come just to survive there is an interesting phrase that was used in a film called brave heart that I found very beautiful that said the following "all men they die" "but few men live" "some just survive" I doubt that these men who really live are within this statistic of the depressed, the anguished and those with suicidal ideation I doubt these men even when life is running out they would like one more moment one more breath to do something more for humanity to make the world a little better to make a little more of their dreams come true these men know the value that their life has and they use this value in the appropriate way they use this value in favor of themselves and humanity they are a factor of sum, they want to make a difference and a minute of your life is endowed with value.
