Right now crying because of my being isolated in my home, this comes up while rolling the youtube ! Thank You so much. This meditation really helps me in this situation not being able to meet my family and being poor not being able to travel to the woods.
My Mom called herself a stoic. She was a uniquely calm, wise, and effective individual who projected her boundless positive worldxiew through a quiet internal power. Thanks, Dude, for posting something of value I can share with my own kids.
This is why I love this channel so much. The unfiltered, brutal honesty about who we really are & our place in the grand scheme of things is truly liberating & refreshing. I'm very happy to be a modern day stoic, it makes life so much more enjoyable & fulfilling. It's true when they say that the truth shall set you free. Thank you for sharing this incredibly deep wisdom with all of us!
@Time to Reason Thank you. I suppose as for my family, it's just too much to ask them to think for themselves. They are classic Southern Baptists and they can keep clinging to their Gawd. I intend to enjoy a fresh and realistic outlook on life.
@ Time to Reason @ David S Bravo, for leaving illusion. Welcome to the real world, you are on your way to your awakening, eternal peace within yourselves by understanding the true reality of nature. Live here not with mythical ghosts who never existed or never will return. All dead men are DEAD. For more than 2,000 years we waited for a promise of return which initially promised to return in one's life time, yes keep on dreaming.
this ACTUALLY calmed my anxiety down, wow it really does indeed calm the mind. Even if the earth gets incinerated by the sun one day and the sun eventually goes out as a supernova , stoic wisdom is timeless
“What place do we occupy in the "universe"? A point, if that! Why reproach ourselves when we are evidently so insignificant? Once we make this observation, we grow calm at once: henceforth, no more bother, no more frenzy, metaphysical or otherwise. And then that point dilates, swells, substitutes itself for space. And everything begins all over again.” Emil Cioran
I think Cioran means that, despite being able to achieve a state of calm through this stoic truth (we are only one point, etc.), after all we are too attached to our ego. Therefore what begins again is the old and known suffering.
What an incredible video! Thanks for it. Haven’t seen any better TH-cam channel, glad to have found someone with whom I can relate, and some philosophy which has definitely changed my life. Keep up the incredible work!
I used to do lots of this kind of visualisation as a child and, as I've said on another video, I think adult life is trying to teach me out of this sense of wonder and curiosity that I sought to love and retain.
I strive to do this daily. However, I admit it's easy to let the crazy events of the world or your inner world get the best of you if you're not careful. This content helps me remember what to focus on and what's truly important.
Look at the giant gulf of time that is before us and another infinity that is ahead of us, we are nothing but a speck of sand in the backdrop of infinity. Hardship is only temporary; Do not get stress out man.
Thanks for this excellent video. It is nice to notice how Lucian of Samosata, contemporary of Marcus Aurelius, deals with this view from above placing the legendary Menippus at the moon. Over there he looks at the Earth and endlessly laughs at the vanity of human affairs and their ridiculous theatre. In many ways this approach seems to be an welcome humorous complement to the Stoic one. Best wishes.
I have done that exercise for so many years in order to observe my problems in a different and higher perspective and I didn't know it was a stoic exercise.
..Dude...you would be perfect to do a series of vids for our teenagers! Often TH-cam got more effect then parental guidance ...i d highly appreciate it.
From the perspective of total existence, we do not exist 😂. Because we are that negligible. So there is nothing to worry. Nothing to fear. Its very relieving.
The possibility of an artificial general intelligence that is infinitely more conscious than I am, and one that I can help create and possibly merge consciousness with, makes me feel pretty big compared to the Earth.
So far zero dislikes Hope it stays that way But then again; why care about such insignificant things ;) I like your work man Am often drawn to the Vastness of time and space, for meaningful peace But also to the significance of micro concepts
This is one of the best video of you , i have ever seen. However bro, I would suggest you to make a playlist on Advait Vedant (Non-dulaistic) philosophy. For refrence you can read the written version of vedant written by Indian Author and philosopher Acharya Prashant
Einzelganger can you make a video about tribalism, nationalism, ethnonationalism and how we cling to ideas like that which sometimes make us lose rationality and virtue.
I have a question.. We are just limited to this life.. what we have to do with cosmos? We have to react according to that limited life. Not according to the cosmos..
We are still part of the cosmos, even if a very small part. In fact, our smallness is kind of the point. You may say we’re too small to be concerned with the cosmos, but then our problems are also small.
I love stoicism. However, I prefer the point of view of seeing yourself as part and connected to the bast universe (nature) instead of just an insignificant part of it.
The pain and the suffering of homelessness is real. Lack of money can destroy a human being. We are not like Diogenes the cynic. We live in urban unforgiving cities.
What helped me was just chill, go ahead and memento mori but I‘ll try next time visualize myself from above. Thanks. Edit: I think insignificant is the wrong term. We have meaning and we are significant BUT we take us too seriously! Thats the mistake. I should take myself that seriously.
I'm not sure I wanted to ponder about my insignificance today... thanks... I mean I know what you are saying and it's a healthy mindset but maaaann....
Think of it this way... There’s the great big big big world and even that is just a small little blue dot way out in one galaxy, just one galaxy in many many more. And in this great and chaotic and orderly beautiful bigness with all the nebulae and solar systems and what not... you’re it too. You are the very same universe. You grew out of it like an apple does a tree. You’re not insignificant. You’re it. I recommend some of Alan Watts lectures. They’re phenomenal.
The only thing I don't like about this view of ourselves is that it is dehumanizing, not that this is not a realistic stance, don't get me wrong. But, it's like, I'm a single father, I wouldn't be a good father if I just said "Well, my son's a spec in the universe, let him fend for himself", there are aspects to us, what makes us what we are, that cannot truly adapt to this grasp of mentality. Otherwise, we could just justify serial killers, they're just erasing specs in the Universe, afterall. lol That said, to sometimes dive into this realm of realization is humbling and healthy, just don't let it make us heartless beings.
Quran 6:61,62 He is the Supreme Master over His servants and sends guardian angels over you. When death approaches any one of you, Our angels take his soul - they never fail their duty. Then these souls are brought back to Allah, their true Lord. He is the Judge and He is the swiftest in settling accounts. ( of reckoners)
So in short everything we do is meaningless. And if I killed myself, it wouldn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things because I’m not that important in comparison to the vastness of the universe? Cool.
Yeas and no 1st point its not to look at yourself as insignificant but to look at your problems to see how insignificant they are, this will allow you to be happier and pursue things you enjoy 2nd point you are not insignificant to the people who love or rely on you, which always give us purpose 3rd point I don't believe in an after life so I believe that the most important thing in this life is not to waste it and live it to the fullest, and try to live a healthy lifestyle just now so that I can reduce my chance of chronic injury and disease as I age.
In the same time it look scary to realize how much we a are too insignficant, feel depressif that we are nothing, whith no goal, why shold we wirk learn or do, what is th point of this?
I disagree. If this little place and this little moment is all we have, it is all the more important to us. Think of the life of an ant or a tardigrade. It doesn't matter how insignificant their lives are to us. For them, their little place is all that will ever matter (if they were able to think about these things, of course). I agree with your point of using a wider perspective for things that unduly burden us, but this perspective should encompass our time in the world and what little we can affect beyond it, not more. Today's altercation can be meaningless in the big scheme of our lives. However, things like a divorce do deserve all the energy and consideration we can give them, as they will change how we live the rest of our lives. It doesn't matter if they are insignificant in the history of Earth or of the solar system.
Although the message is all good, using planets and galaxies and aliens and stuff like that to acchieve the "veiw-point" kind of ruines it all, now that we know that the earth is flat and that space is fake?
I don't agree with this philosophy. We are everything else BUT small. That's what "they" want us to think. But we are powerful beings, each with God's spark within us.
Thankfully I need to burst your bubble here. Without Christ and an afterlife our time on this planet is pointless . With him all our actions are relevant. Just saying ; makes sense doesn't it ?
Check out Einzelgänger's book 'Stoicism for Inner Peace' here: einzelganger.co/innerpeace
And the other book about the insults?
The more I learn about Stoicism the more I realize I've been a Stoic for years without realizing it.
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Same, it is surprisingly instinctive yet the truth eludes most people so they spend all that time being unhappy, grasping at things that cannot be
Right now crying because of my being isolated in my home, this comes up while rolling the youtube ! Thank You so much. This meditation really helps me in this situation not being able to meet my family and being poor not being able to travel to the woods.
My Mom called herself a stoic. She was a uniquely calm, wise, and effective individual who projected her boundless positive worldxiew through a quiet internal power. Thanks, Dude, for posting something of value I can share with my own kids.
This is why I love this channel so much. The unfiltered, brutal honesty about who we really are & our place in the grand scheme of things is truly liberating & refreshing. I'm very happy to be a modern day stoic, it makes life so much more enjoyable & fulfilling. It's true when they say that the truth shall set you free. Thank you for sharing this incredibly deep wisdom with all of us!
Thank you very much Ash! Take care!
What is the grand scheme of things exactly?
Amazing how Marcus Aurelius talks about mortality and he is inmortal for us.
@Time to Reason Well said. Pretty much the same story here. I'm 57 and had never heard of Stoicism until recently. What a wonderful discovery!
@Time to Reason Thank you. I suppose as for my family, it's just too much to ask them to think for themselves. They are classic Southern Baptists and they can keep clinging to their Gawd. I intend to enjoy a fresh and realistic outlook on life.
@ Time to Reason @ David S
Bravo, for leaving illusion. Welcome to the real world, you are on your way to your awakening, eternal peace within yourselves by understanding the true reality of nature. Live here not with mythical ghosts who never existed or never will return. All dead men are DEAD. For more than 2,000 years we waited for a promise of return which initially promised to return in one's life time, yes keep on dreaming.
@Bashar al-Assad's #1 Fan Self righteous? I guess it depends on one's perspective. Sorry I can't make sense of the rest of your comment.
this ACTUALLY calmed my anxiety down, wow it really does indeed calm the mind. Even if the earth gets incinerated by the sun one day and the sun eventually goes out as a supernova , stoic wisdom is timeless
“What place do we occupy in the "universe"? A point, if that! Why reproach ourselves when we are evidently so insignificant? Once we make this observation, we grow calm at once: henceforth, no more bother, no more frenzy, metaphysical or otherwise. And then that point dilates, swells, substitutes itself for space. And everything begins all over again.”
Emil Cioran
Can u explain by what u that everything begins again?
I think Cioran means that, despite being able to achieve a state of calm through this stoic truth (we are only one point, etc.), after all we are too attached to our ego. Therefore what begins again is the old and known suffering.
Love your voice! Thanks for taking the time to create well-plaained content that matters! ❣
If you like this (as i do) check out 'Like Stories of Old' (LSOO) on TH-cam. 👍
Thank you for making these videos.
I watch them repeatedly everyday, almost like an exercise.
My life has become way more bearable because of you.
What an incredible video! Thanks for it. Haven’t seen any better TH-cam channel, glad to have found someone with whom I can relate, and some philosophy which has definitely changed my life. Keep up the incredible work!
I like it! Elevate yourself above the battlefield to have a clearer perspective of how things are.
I use Google maps and zoom out. I always end up being relaxed and stress free knowing how insignificant I'm and my place in this world.
Wanted to punch someone for bad behavior but this 'view from above' have calmed me down.thanks for the video
You say: thank you for watching. And I say: thank you for sharing!!
Your videos have timeless value and they deal with so many topics but still I'm always hoping to see some new ones!
Great tip. This daily exercise will show us our insignificance towards the universe.
I used to do lots of this kind of visualisation as a child and, as I've said on another video, I think adult life is trying to teach me out of this sense of wonder and curiosity that I sought to love and retain.
I strive to do this daily. However, I admit it's easy to let the crazy events of the world or your inner world get the best of you if you're not careful. This content helps me remember what to focus on and what's truly important.
Dankjewel voor je content man de afgelopen tijd heb ik er veel aan gehad ik blijf geabonneerd! Nogmaals thanks!!
Look at the giant gulf of time that is before us and another infinity that is ahead of us, we are nothing but a speck of sand in the backdrop of infinity.
Hardship is only temporary;
Do not get stress out man.
Size ≠ Significance tho.
Thanks for this excellent video. It is nice to notice how Lucian of Samosata, contemporary of Marcus Aurelius, deals with this view from above placing the legendary Menippus at the moon. Over there he looks at the Earth and endlessly laughs at the vanity of human affairs and their ridiculous theatre. In many ways this approach seems to be an welcome humorous complement to the Stoic one. Best wishes.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I'm enjoying whatching them, it helps me so much looking at life in a different way.
Amazing video! I definitely saw the beauty of Stoicism on it. Thank U so much!
The thought of our lonely existence among the stars used to trouble me but now I find internal peace
@@gbaker9295 Hellenistic schools of thought have also changed my life. They've made me see with new eyes, they built in me a better human being.
Hi ! I just filed this after having heard i 4 times; Soothing my soul !
Beautiful words of wisdom...we are truly all grains of sand in this infinite universe......
Not much to worry about afterall..
Thank you :)
Einzelgänger is the hidden gem, man...
Thank you
I always do this method everytime I want to have a wide vision of my present moment.
That was relieving! Thank you. :-)
Your videos are really helpful. Thanks.
DUDE IVE BEEN DOIN THIS FOR YEARS! I thought i was the only one lol
I have done that exercise for so many years in order to observe my problems in a different and higher perspective and I didn't know it was a stoic exercise.
This video is almost as good as The Pale Blue Dot…great job! 👍🏻
From the Stoic meditation on my external existence I go in the opposite direction: inside my own depth. It is there that I find the truth.
gracias por este video
Much needed❤
love this, thank you
I recommend the video 'pale blue dot' by Carl Sagan for those who may have not already watched it. It encapsulates this idea excellently
There's a book on that.
Live in the moment
Awesome
..Dude...you would be perfect to do a series of vids for our teenagers!
Often TH-cam got more effect then parental guidance ...i d highly appreciate it.
I missed your Sunday video 😳 was starting to be a Sunday routine. I hope is all right. 🤗 we are waiting for the next one.
This helped a lot, I needed it. Thank you!
Mate, you should do a video about dealing with OCD. You are the man for the job.
Hidden gem
I used to do this sometimes to relieve stress and anxiety and didn't even know it was stoic exercise.
Absolutely love your videos maaaan, keep them coming please! I gotta find a job so that I can give you money on Patreon XD
From the perspective of total existence, we do not exist 😂. Because we are that negligible. So there is nothing to worry. Nothing to fear. Its very relieving.
I low keyneeded this my mind has been racing but this calmed me I'm am insignificant as a stone so meh.
Live in the moment
Live in the present
Didn't know this is solitary wolf's channel until I heard the voice !!!
Keep it UP! Always good content!💪
Nando from italy
Please do a video on compassion fatigue. Thank you!
A LOT OF WISDOM FOR INNER PEACE
trapped by our goals and and ambitions . To free our ambitious mind is an ambition of mine none the less !:}
The possibility of an artificial general intelligence that is infinitely more conscious than I am, and one that I can help create and possibly merge consciousness with, makes me feel pretty big compared to the Earth.
So far zero dislikes
Hope it stays that way
But then again; why care about such insignificant things ;)
I like your work man
Am often drawn to the Vastness of time and space, for meaningful peace
But also to the significance of micro concepts
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This is one of the best video of you , i have ever seen. However bro, I would suggest you to make a playlist on Advait Vedant (Non-dulaistic) philosophy. For refrence you can read the written version of vedant written by Indian Author and philosopher Acharya Prashant
It is ALL temporary.......but it continues.......
Einzelganger can you make a video about tribalism, nationalism, ethnonationalism and how we cling to ideas like that which sometimes make us lose rationality and virtue.
I have a question..
We are just limited to this life.. what we have to do with cosmos? We have to react according to that limited life. Not according to the cosmos..
We are still part of the cosmos, even if a very small part. In fact, our smallness is kind of the point. You may say we’re too small to be concerned with the cosmos, but then our problems are also small.
I love stoicism. However, I prefer the point of view of seeing yourself as part and connected to the bast universe (nature) instead of just an insignificant part of it.
The pain and the suffering of homelessness is real. Lack of money can destroy a human being. We are not like Diogenes the cynic. We live in urban unforgiving cities.
"The View from Halfway Down." BoJack
What helped me was just chill, go ahead and memento mori but I‘ll try next time visualize myself from above.
Thanks.
Edit: I think insignificant is the wrong term. We have meaning and we are significant BUT we take us too seriously! Thats the mistake.
I should take myself that seriously.
I'm not sure I wanted to ponder about my insignificance today... thanks... I mean I know what you are saying and it's a healthy mindset but maaaann....
Think of it this way... There’s the great big big big world and even that is just a small little blue dot way out in one galaxy, just one galaxy in many many more. And in this great and chaotic and orderly beautiful bigness with all the nebulae and solar systems and what not... you’re it too. You are the very same universe. You grew out of it like an apple does a tree. You’re not insignificant. You’re it.
I recommend some of Alan Watts lectures. They’re phenomenal.
Dear Aliens, stop peeping at me!
Kia ora from New Zealand you may like Carl sagan's pale blue dot🌏
This idea of external distance brings a lot of despair : what even matters ? why bother to endure all the pains of life if it has so little meaning ?
Remember that this philosophy is a view of a single person, not all philosophies are to be embraced!
The only thing I don't like about this view of ourselves is that it is dehumanizing, not that this is not a realistic stance, don't get me wrong. But, it's like, I'm a single father, I wouldn't be a good father if I just said "Well, my son's a spec in the universe, let him fend for himself", there are aspects to us, what makes us what we are, that cannot truly adapt to this grasp of mentality. Otherwise, we could just justify serial killers, they're just erasing specs in the Universe, afterall. lol
That said, to sometimes dive into this realm of realization is humbling and healthy, just don't let it make us heartless beings.
Nice video. For a more lighthearted alternative with the same message, have a listen to Monty Python's Galaxy Song on youtube.
Pale blue dot
Quran 6:61,62
He is the Supreme Master over His servants and sends guardian angels over you. When death approaches any one of you, Our angels take his soul - they never fail their duty. Then these souls are brought back to Allah, their true Lord. He is the Judge and He is the swiftest in settling accounts. ( of reckoners)
Quran urges over and over again to be conscious and to do good deeds. These talks supports my beliefs. Thank u🙏
With subtitle please
Overview effect
What is the cause of reincarnation....??
So in short everything we do is meaningless. And if I killed myself, it wouldn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things because I’m not that important in comparison to the vastness of the universe? Cool.
Yeas and no
1st point its not to look at yourself as insignificant but to look at your problems to see how insignificant they are, this will allow you to be happier and pursue things you enjoy
2nd point you are not insignificant to the people who love or rely on you, which always give us purpose
3rd point I don't believe in an after life so I believe that the most important thing in this life is not to waste it and live it to the fullest, and try to live a healthy lifestyle just now so that I can reduce my chance of chronic injury and disease as I age.
In the same time it look scary to realize how much we a are too insignficant, feel depressif that we are nothing, whith no goal, why shold we wirk learn or do, what is th point of this?
we are freaking ants man....
rat hay
I disagree. If this little place and this little moment is all we have, it is all the more important to us. Think of the life of an ant or a tardigrade. It doesn't matter how insignificant their lives are to us. For them, their little place is all that will ever matter (if they were able to think about these things, of course). I agree with your point of using a wider perspective for things that unduly burden us, but this perspective should encompass our time in the world and what little we can affect beyond it, not more. Today's altercation can be meaningless in the big scheme of our lives. However, things like a divorce do deserve all the energy and consideration we can give them, as they will change how we live the rest of our lives. It doesn't matter if they are insignificant in the history of Earth or of the solar system.
Yea but that's he a this video explains live in the moment don't worry about insignificant things.
Does not really help at work when every project or problem „doesn’t matter in the universe“ 😆
First, haha
Although the message is all good, using planets and galaxies and aliens and stuff like that to acchieve the "veiw-point" kind of ruines it all, now that we know that the earth is flat and that space is fake?
I don't agree with this philosophy. We are everything else BUT small. That's what "they" want us to think. But we are powerful beings, each with God's spark within us.
Zoom out
Thankfully I need to burst your bubble here.
Without Christ and an afterlife our time on this planet is pointless .
With him all our actions are relevant.
Just saying ; makes sense doesn't it ?
Not really
Fifth
So in other words life is useless waste of time
Can I just say you have really nice calves? and arms...? It's kind of distracting.
C. Tyrell stoic /fit/ gang
Haha, thank you... trying to bulk up a little this winter :)
Earth is flat
Chris Madsen moron
The earth is flat.
HappyPappy imbecile
I really like your content. Do you want to be my boyfriend ?
Well this is an inappropriate comment
@@micvili7527 not at all. kindness is never inappropriate