The salient difference between stoicism and Christianity is prayer. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius dispenses with the need for prayer, which is tantamount to dispensing with the need for God.

(Got a God intolerance ... Seneca” — the most companionable of the new Stoic books — includes an appendix of these practices. Try the “view from above” exercise, Fideler suggests ...

The rise of stoicism as a chic cultural trend among the middle and upper classes belies a deeper history of how self-denial and discipline serve as markers of class and tools of power. Across ...

The first division of the Noble Eightfold Path is “right view,” or maintaining perspective ... As if the things that irritate us lasted. God, Fate, and Evil Stoic physics is indebted to ...

Are you part of the growing stoicism movement? Built on virtue, reason, and self-control, the ancient Roman philosophy is gaining popularity in a world that just seems to get crazier and crazier.