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Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations)

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Day 146: There Are Two Kinds of Joy—Most People Are Chasing the Wrong One | Dying Every Day

Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) · May 13, 2026 · 14:04

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Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 146.


There is the happiness that depends on circumstances—on getting what you want, on the day cooperating, on fortune being kind. It is real, while it lasts. And it does not last.


And then there is something else. Something that does not rise and fall with the weather of events. Something James could describe but struggled to name—until he reached for a phrase that stopped him in his tracks. [...]


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