{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6164470ddef1ec0012762fbd/697f638956431a2c0f309d5f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Why Good People Suffer","description":"<p>This episode tackles one of life’s most enduring questions: why do misfortunes so often strike those who seem least deserving of them?</p><p><br></p><p>Drawing on Seneca’s <em>On Providence</em> and the poetry of Octavio Paz, we look at suffering not as injustice but as a form of moral training and self-discovery. </p><p><br></p><p>Hardship, in this view, isn't a detour from the good life but the very terrain on which character is formed.</p><p><br></p><p>👇 👇 👇</p><p><br></p><p>📻<strong> FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Check out one of my latest daily <em>Micro Morning Meditations</em> here on Substack:</p><p><br></p><p><em>☀️ Micro Morning Meditation: It Does No Good To Rage At Circumstance</em></p><p><a href=\"https://whatisstoicism.substack.com/p/micro-morning-meditation-it-does\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://whatisstoicism.substack.com/p/micro-morning-meditation-it-does</a></p>","author_name":"Allan John (What Is Stoicism?)"}