#7 Stoic practice: adopting a much broader point of view

This series of articles is my feedback on A Handbook for New Stoics, a book on the practice of Stoicism, by Massimo Pigliucci and Gregory Lopez. For one year, every week, I will experience the Stoic practices proposed by the handbook and I will share with you my weekly review. This will provide you with an overview of the different Stoic exercises and the benefits (or not) they can offer you.

💬 The quote (Marcus Aurelius)

The agitations that beset you are superfluous, and depend wholly upon judgments of your own. You can get rid of them, and in so doing will indeed live at large, by embracing the whole universe in your view and comprehending all eternity and imagining the swiftness of change in each particular, seeing how brief is the passage from birth to dissolution, birth with its unfathomable before, dissolution with its infinite thereafter.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.32

🔥 Practice: meditating on time, space and humanity

The practice consisted in detaching ourselves from our problems by imagining that we perceive our situation on the timeline, in the infinite space of the universe, or in relation to what humanity as a whole is experiencing.