Stoicism is made up of conflicting writings, especially around God, determinism vs free will, happiness vs avoidance of pain etc. Today most Stoic fans are practicing a cafeteria approach: picking up the few useful bits, modifying others, discarding the rest. 

But it’s important to know th...

A good character cannot be developed without a proper understanding and implementation of all three Stoic disciplines, which are:

1. The discipline of desire (also referred to as Stoic acceptance)
2. The discipline of action (known also as Stoic phil...

It is not outside forces that make us feel something, it is what we tell ourselves that create our feelings. 

Many of us want to place blame and responsibility on external objects because it’s easy to do, but the truth remains that all conflicts start internally, in our minds.