Tame: Mind Over Matter

Welcome to Episode 36 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Ignoring what goes on in other people’s souls—no one ever came to grief that way. But if you won’t keep track of what your own soul’s doing, how can you not be unhappy?" Book 2, Chapter 8 "It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it." Book 4, Chapter 9 "Love the discipline you know, and let it support you. Entrust everything willingly to the gods, and then make your way through life—no one’s master and no one’s slave." Book 4, Chapter 31   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ________________________

Welcome to Episode 34 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "So other people hurt me? That’s their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature, what I do by my own." Book 5, Chapter 25 "“Everything is just an impression.” —Monimus the Cynic. And the response is obvious enough. But the point is a useful one, if you take it for what it’s worth." Book 2, Chapter 15 "Disgraceful: for the soul to give up when the body is still going strong." Book 6, Chapter 29   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. _________________________________

Welcome to Episode 33 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "The foolishness of people who are surprised by anything that happens. Like travelers amazed at foreign customs." Book 12, Chapter 13 "Someone despises me. That’s their problem. Mine: not to do or say anything despicable. Someone hates me. Their problem. Mine: to be patient and cheerful with everyone, including them. Ready to show them their mistake. Not spitefully, or to show off my own self-control, but in an honest, upright way. Like Phocion (if he wasn’t just pretending). That’s what we should be like inside, and never let the gods catch us feeling anger or resentment. As long as you do what’s proper to your nature, and accept what the world’s nature has in store—as long as you work for others’ good, by any and all means—what is there tha

Welcome to Episode 32 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "The lamp shines until it is put out, without losing its gleam, and yet in you it all gutters out so early—truth, justice, self-control?" Book 12, Chapter 15 "At all times, look at the thing itself—the thing behind the appearance—and unpack it by analysis: cause substance purpose and the length of time it exists." Book 12, Chapter 18 " Don’t be irritated at people’s smell or bad breath. What’s the point? With that mouth, with those armpits, they’re going to produce that odor. —But they have a brain! Can’t they figure it out? Can’t they recognize the problem? So you have a brain as well. Good for you. Then use your logic to awaken his. Show him. Make him realize it. If he’ll listen, then you’ll have solved the problem. Without anger. " Book 5,

Welcome to Episode 30 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstances, revert at once to yourself, and don’t lose the rhythm more than you can help. You’ll have a better grasp of the harmony if you keep on going back to it." Book 6, Chapter 11 "Everywhere, at each moment, you have the option:• to accept this event with humility• to treat this person as he should be treated• to approach this thought with care, so that nothing irrational creeps in." Book 7, Chapter 54 "Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone— those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river: the “what” is in constant flux, the “why” has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what’s right here. The infinity of past and future gapes before us—a chasm whose

Welcome to Episode 30 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Practice even what seems impossible. The left hand is useless at almost everything, for lack of practice. But it guides the reins better than the right. From practice." Book 12, Chapter 6 "When faced with people’s bad behaviour, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognise that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?). Or remove the compulsion, if you can." Book 12, Chapter 9 "To see things as they are. Substance, cause and purpose." Book 12, Chapter 10   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you

Welcome to Episode 29 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Stop whatever you’re doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won’t be able to do this anymore?" Book 10, Chapter 29 "When faced with people’s bad behaviour, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognise that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?). Or remove the compulsion, if you can." Book 10, Chapter 30 "To live a good life: We have the potential for it. If we can learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference." Book 11, Chapter 16 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this wit

Welcome to Episode 28 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "It’s all in how you perceive it. You’re in control. You can dispense with misperception at will, like rounding the point. Serenity, total calm, safe anchorage." Book 12, Chapter 22 "Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives it." Book 10, Chapter 20 "My mind. What is it? What am I making of it? What am I using it for? Is it empty of thought? Isolated and torn loose from those around it? Melted into flesh and blended with it, so that it shares its urges?" Book 10, Chapter 24 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @ta

Welcome to Episode 27 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions—not outside." Book 9, Chapter 13   "Things wait outside us, hover at the door. They keep to themselves. Ask them who they are and they don’t know, they can give no account of themselves. What accounts for them? The mind does." Book 9, Chapter 15   "Nature gives and nature takes away. Anyone with sense and humility will tell her, “Give and take as you please,” not out of defiance, but out of obedience and goodwill." Book 10, Chapter 14   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on F

Welcome to Episode 26 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing." Book 9, Chapter 5 "That before long you’ll be no one, and nowhere. Like all the things you see now. All the people now living. Everything’s destiny is to change, to be transformed, to perish. So that new things can be born." Book 12, Chapter 21 "Blot out your imagination. Turn your desire to stone. Quench your appetites. Keep your mind centered on itself." Book 9, Chapter 7 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________

Welcome to Episode 25 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "To stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one." Book 10, Chapter 16 "Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives it." Book 10, Chapter 20 "It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own. If a god appeared to us—or a wise human being, even —and prohibited us from concealing our thoughts or imagining anything without immediately shouting it out, we wouldn’t make it through a single day. That’s how much we value other people’s opinions—instead of our own" Book 12, Chapter 4 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think wo

Welcome to Tame Minis #05, a bite-sized version of the Tame podcast where Owen or Connor share a new helpful perspective you to consider and test in your own life. Today, as a small digression from interpreting Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, Owen discusses two of the 'uncomfortable decisions' actors must make, as theorised by Declan Donnellan in his book The Actor and the Target, and applies this acting advice to real life scenarios. We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast. ____________________________________________________ Sources used in this episode:   [Book] The Actor and the Target by Declan Donnellan Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them t

Welcome to Episode 24 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Don’t waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people—unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful." Book 3, Chapter 4 "Remember: you shouldn’t be surprised that a fig tree produces figs, nor the world what it produces. A good doctor isn’t surprised when his patients have fevers, or a helmsman when the wind blows against him." Book 8, Chapter 15 "To erase false perceptions, tell yourself: I have it in me to keep my soul from evil, lust and all confusion. To see things as they are and treat them as they deserve. Don’t overlook this innate ability." Book 8, Chapter 29 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and

Welcome to Episode 23 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Keep in mind that all rational things are related, and that to care for all human beings is part of being human. Which doesn’t mean we have to share their opinions. We should listen only to those whose lives conform to nature." Book 3, Chapter 4 "Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces—to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What’s thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it—and makes it burn still higher." Book 4, Chapter 1 "The tranquillity that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what you do. T

Welcome to Episode 22 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "You can hold your breath until you turn blue, but they’ll still go on doing it." Book 8, Chapter 4 "Look at who they really are, the people whose approval you long for, and what their minds are really like. Then you won’t blame the ones who make mistakes they can’t help, and you won’t feel a need for their approval. You will have seen the sources of both—their judgments and their actions." Book 7, Chapter 62 "Self-contraction: the mind’s requirements are satisfied by doing what we should, and by the calm it brings us." Book 7, Chapter 28 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on

Welcome to Tame Minis #05, a bite-sized version of the Tame podcast where Owen or Connor discuss a single quote from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and share their subjective interpretation on how we can apply its lessons and logic to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today Owen discusses the following quote: "Discard your misperceptions. Stop being jerked like a puppet. Limit yourself to the present. Understand what happens—to you, to others. Analyze what exists, break it all down: material and cause. Anticipate your final hours. Other people’s mistakes? Leave them to their makers." Book 7, Chapter 29 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast. ____________________________________________________ Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and

Welcome to Episode 21 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "The mind is that which is roused and directed by itself. It makes of itself what it chooses. It makes what it chooses of its own experience." Book 6, Chapter 8 "Disgraceful: that the mind should control the face, should be able to shape and mold it as it pleases, but not shape and mold itself." Book 7, Chapter 37 "To feel affection for people even when they make mistakes is uniquely human. You can do it, if you simply recognize: that they’re human too, that they act out of ignorance, against their will, and that you’ll both be dead before long. And, above all, that they haven’t really hurt you. They haven’t diminished your ability to choose." Book 7, Chapter 22 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leavi

Welcome to Episode 20 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Forget the future. When and if it comes, you’ll have the same resources to draw on—the same logos." Book 7, Chapter 8 "'And why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice!'" Book 7, Chapter 38 "Everywhere, at each moment, you have the option:• to accept this event with humility• to treat this person as he should be treated• to approach this thought with care, so that nothing irrational creeps in." Book 7, Chapter 54 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcas

Welcome to Tame Minis #04, a bite-sized version of the Tame podcast where Owen or Connor discuss a single quote from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and share their subjective interpretation on how we can apply its lessons and logic to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today Owen discusses the following quote: "Constant awareness that everything is born from change. The knowledge that there is nothing nature loves more than to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the ones that make plants or children? Go deeper." Book 4, Chapter 36 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast. ____________________________________________________ Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for bette

Welcome to Episode 19 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes: "To harvest life like standing stalks of grain. Grown and cut down in turn." Book 7, Chapter 40 "Wash yourself clean. With simplicity, with humility, with indifference to everything but right and wrong. Care for other human beings. Follow God." Book 7, Chapter 31 "Nature did not blend things so inextricably that you can’t draw your own boundaries—place your own well-being in your own hands." Book 7, Chapter 67 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to crea