Stoic Virtues Journal: Your Guide to Building Character and Becoming the Person You Aspire to Be

by K. Wilkins, Wisdom Journals

Overview

LIFE ADVICE From the Wisest People Ever
How to deal with adversity. Follow your passion. Be courageous. Be a better person. Be true to yourself. Live in the present.  
This second volume builds on Volume I in this series (which includes an introduction to Stoicism and six months of Stoic wisdom) and provides another six months of daily exercises that help one cultivate the four Stoic virtues of courage, justice, temperance, and wisdom. As with each volume, the journal juxtaposes the wise words of the Stoics with proverbs and quotes from across the ages and across many cultures. The quotes are annotated with a daily question that prompts you to reflect upon your life, your values, and your actions and thus cultivate these timeless virtues.

Braver, kinder, calmer, composed, perseverant, empathetic, reflective, reliable, insightful... These are a few of the many attributes that our Stoic guides, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and Epictetus, urge us to cultivate. Their advice, and variants of it, from the pens of hundreds of notable personalities, past and present, such as Lao Tzu, Confucius, Jesus, Buddha, Jordan Peterson, Jung, Nietzsche, Frankl, Adler, Fromm, Socrates, Aristotle, Shakespeare, J.K. Rowling, Margaret Atwood, Bruce Lee, Muhammed Ali, Maya Angelou, Oprah and more are brought to life in your own Stoic Virtues Journal.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186438069
Publisher:	Ex animo Publishing
Publication date:	09/06/2022
Series:	Stoic Virtues Series , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Wisdom Journals:

Harry has Dumbledore, Luke has Obi-Wan and Yoda, Frodo has Gandalf. Who do you have to guide you? If you could have a mentor who would it be?

Wisdom Journals distill the wisdom of the ages, ancient and recent, in a way that you are certain to find a guide who can provide you with life changing advice.

Wisdom comes from without, and from within. That is why Wisdom Journals combine pivotal insights with daily prompts to foster self-transformation.

These journals began as gifts - from parent to child. Thus, they are ideal gifts, from you to someone you care about, or, even better, a gift to yourself.

K. Wilkins

A few years ago, I sat down to write a book for my children. I sought to summarize some essential life lessons, things that I wished that I had known as a young person. I wanted to give them a manual of living for sorts, the type of book I would have liked to have as a young adult (this despite the fact that in all likelihood I would have dismissed any such work as propaganda at the time. With a few decades under my belt, I see the error in my ways; in sum, I agree with Oscar Wilde - I am not young enough to know everything).

As I progressed with this book, working through the question of what one must know to lead a good life, I found myself coming to the same conclusions of these cherished guides. They were often cited at the head of each chapter; their pithy statements expressed what I did in thousands of words. That book of dialogues (publication pending) and the story it tells weaves together much of the best advice I could find about key life themes such as love, education, friendship, work, health, and money.

I found that writing was a more powerful learning tool than reading alone. What I learned is that wisdom is as much, or more, of a 'how' than a 'what.' It is a journey rather than a destination. The lessons within these quotes and proverbs are best assimilated through the act of writing on the theme than reading alone. Writing forces us out of our inner monologue, we engage in a dialogue between our current self and our ideal self, or between our public self and our authentic self. By adding wisdom quotes into the mix, we bring the wisest minds of all time into the conversation. Hence, Wisdom Journals.