Story 77 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
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Doing non-doing deconditions the mind so that a happy life, defined by the Stoics as true, virtuous, and natural, arises like a phoenix from the ashes of the conditioned mind. Since the real shift is within you, your new life may retain all the appearances of your old life. After all, the difference, they say, between heaven and hell is a mere sixteenth of an inch, surely an imperceptible amount of change in the grand scheme of things....
narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
4 minutes 22 seconds
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