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☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: The Meaning of Life

It's not handed to us.

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Allan John (What Is Stoicism?)
Nov 05, 2025
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1. Morning Contemplation

🎧 You can find the audio version of this morning’s contemplation below.

Good morning.

The meaning of life is a topic that humans have wrestled with ever since our evolution reached a point that gave us the self-awareness to do so.

There are too many responses to the question to summarize succinctly. Maybe the meaning is for each of us to find out for ourselves, or maybe there is no meaning at all.

The Stoics, of course, had their own ideas. They found meaning in progressing toward virtue and treating others well. Outside that, to the Stoic, most things aren’t worth worrying about.

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