Day 147: What Are You Running From?—Seneca and Socrates on Solitude | Dying Every Day
Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) · May 20, 2026 · 13:22
Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations)
Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) · May 20, 2026 · 13:22
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Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 147.
“Know thyself,” the words inscribed at the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Not know the world. Not know the gods. Know yourself—and understand that until you do, everything else you investigate is a distraction from the only question that finally matters.
The question this meditation wants to sit with is not whether you know yourself. It is whether you have given yourself any real opportunity to find out. And beneath that, what you believe self-knowledge is actually for.
For this reason, Seneca advised Lucilius to “withdraw into yourself as much as you can.” [...]
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