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“It takes a tranquil and untroubled mind to roam freely over all the parts of life.”
Let's explore life and humanity with the aid of the ancient Stoic's wisdom, and the soothing sound of the ancient Greek lyre.
Let legendary ancient Greek and Roman philosophers (such as Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca) be our guides while diving into the depths of the human soul and examine topics such as what it means to live a meaningful life, why it is so important to be the master of yourself, how can we avoid outsourcing our happiness, what are the right things in life, what is beauty and where it can be found, and many more.
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// Episode's Details (Stoic Reading #6)
🖋 Title: The Untroubled Mind (Seneca)
⏱ Duration: 5min 21sec
🎥 Film auteur: Nikolaos Koumartzis
🔗 Mini-series "Ancient World Meditations" available at youtube.com/watch?v=Y7VU-cFt6iM&list=PLcMWkAbRJunHlOUEqoywKO4B_mK2IJe4F
🧘🏽 Who is Maria & Theodore?
Maria Sarigiannidou is a certified Yoga Instructor focusing on the use of the amazing technique of meditation throughout the history of humanity, starting from the Ancient World and ending to this day.
Theodore Koumartzis is a world-renowned lyre player, with many live performances in Greece, Italy, Spain, France, Singapore, and more.
They are both affiliate artists at SEIKILO Museum of Ancient Music, and part of the SEIKILO Ancient World Music Channel available exclusively on YouTube.
🏛️ Visit SEIKILO Museum of Ancient Music: seikilo.com
📜 Videos' Transcript
Life is divided into three parts: past, present, and future. Of these, the present is brief, the future doubtful, the past certain. For this last is the category over which fortune no longer has control, and which cannot be brought back under anyone's power. Preoccupied people lose this part; for they have no leisure to look back at the past, and even if they had it, there's no pleasure in recalling something regrettable.
And so they're unwilling to turn their minds back to times badly spent, and they dare not revisit the past because their vices become obvious in retrospect — even those that insinuated themselves by the allurement of momentary pleasure. No one gladly casts his thoughts back to the past except for the person whose every action has been subjected to his own self-assessment, which is infallible.
A man who's been ambitious in the scale of his desires, arrogant in his disdainfulness, unrestrained in prevailing over others, treacherous in his deceptions, greedy in his plunderings, and lavish in his prodigality — such a man must inevitably be afraid of his own memory. Yet this is the part of our existence that is consecrated and set apart, elevated above all human vicissitudes and removed beyond fortune's sway, and harried by no poverty, no fear, no attacks of disease. This part can be neither disrupted nor stolen away; our possession of it is everlasting and untroubled.
Days are present only one at a time, and these only minute by minute; but all the days of time past will attend you at your bidding, and they will allow you to examine them and hold on to them at your will — something which preoccupied people have no time to do.
It takes a tranquil and untroubled mind to roam freely over all the parts of life; but preoccupied minds, as if under the yoke, cannot turn around and look backward. Their life, therefore, disappears into an abyss; and just as it does no good to pour any amount of liquid into a vessel if there's nothing at the bottom to receive and keep it, so it makes no difference how much time we are given if there's nowhere for it to settle, and it's allowed to pass through the cracks and holes in the mind. [...]
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“It takes a tranquil and untroubled mind to roam freely over all the parts of life.”
Let's explore life and humanity with the aid of the ancient Stoic's wisdom, and the soothing sound of the ancient Greek lyre.
Let legendary ancient Greek and Roman philosophers (such as Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca) be our guides while diving into the depths of the human soul and examine topics such as what it means to live a meaningful life, why it is so important to be the master of yourself, how can we avoid outsourcing our happiness, what are the right things in life, what is beauty and where it can be found, and many more.
⚫ Find the perfect lyre for you at luthieros.com
🔵 Learn how to play the lyre and other ancient musical instruments at
lyreacademy.com/choose-your-next-course
🧘🏽 Follow Ancient World Yoga on Instagram:
instagram.com/ancientworldyoga
🟠 This video is part of SEIKILO's mini-series Ancient World Meditations available at youtube.com/watch?v=Y7VU-cFt6iM&list=PLcMWkAbRJunHlOUEqoywKO4B_mK2IJe4F
🔵 You can find more Ancient Wisdom at youtube.com/watch?v=D1vS9AuJUB0&list=PLcMWkAbRJunFtM3zFfQDBIedcIPxgvfV6
// Episode's Details (Stoic Reading #6)
🖋 Title: The Untroubled Mind (Seneca)
⏱ Duration: 5min 21sec
🎥 Film auteur: Nikolaos Koumartzis
🔗 Mini-series "Ancient World Meditations" available at youtube.com/watch?v=Y7VU-cFt6iM&list=PLcMWkAbRJunHlOUEqoywKO4B_mK2IJe4F
🧘🏽 Who is Maria & Theodore?
Maria Sarigiannidou is a certified Yoga Instructor focusing on the use of the amazing technique of meditation throughout the history of humanity, starting from the Ancient World and ending to this day.
Theodore Koumartzis is a world-renowned lyre player, with many live performances in Greece, Italy, Spain, France, Singapore, and more.
They are both affiliate artists at SEIKILO Museum of Ancient Music, and part of the SEIKILO Ancient World Music Channel available exclusively on YouTube.
🏛️ Visit SEIKILO Museum of Ancient Music: seikilo.com
📜 Videos' Transcript
Life is divided into three parts: past, present, and future. Of these, the present is brief, the future doubtful, the past certain. For this last is the category over which fortune no longer has control, and which cannot be brought back under anyone's power. Preoccupied people lose this part; for they have no leisure to look back at the past, and even if they had it, there's no pleasure in recalling something regrettable.
And so they're unwilling to turn their minds back to times badly spent, and they dare not revisit the past because their vices become obvious in retrospect — even those that insinuated themselves by the allurement of momentary pleasure. No one gladly casts his thoughts back to the past except for the person whose every action has been subjected to his own self-assessment, which is infallible.
A man who's been ambitious in the scale of his desires, arrogant in his disdainfulness, unrestrained in prevailing over others, treacherous in his deceptions, greedy in his plunderings, and lavish in his prodigality — such a man must inevitably be afraid of his own memory. Yet this is the part of our existence that is consecrated and set apart, elevated above all human vicissitudes and removed beyond fortune's sway, and harried by no poverty, no fear, no attacks of disease. This part can be neither disrupted nor stolen away; our possession of it is everlasting and untroubled.
Days are present only one at a time, and these only minute by minute; but all the days of time past will attend you at your bidding, and they will allow you to examine them and hold on to them at your will — something which preoccupied people have no time to do.
It takes a tranquil and untroubled mind to roam freely over all the parts of life; but preoccupied minds, as if under the yoke, cannot turn around and look backward. Their life, therefore, disappears into an abyss; and just as it does no good to pour any amount of liquid into a vessel if there's nothing at the bottom to receive and keep it, so it makes no difference how much time we are given if there's nowhere for it to settle, and it's allowed to pass through the cracks and holes in the mind. [...]
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