There Is No Greatness Without This | The Portable Retreat

<p>People probably thought Marcus Aurelius was strange. The time he spent alone in his room. The long walks he took by himself. We know they thought it was strange that he was seen reading and writing in the Colosseum, ignoring the carnage of the games below.</p><p>“The world today does not understand, in either man or woman,” Anne Morrow Lindbergh writes in <a href="https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/gift-from-the-sea-50th-anniversary-edition?_pos=1&amp;_sid=37cb0becf&amp;_ss=r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Gift from the Sea</em></a>, “the need to be alone.” Perhaps we ourselves don’t understand it. We don’t quite see the point. Or as much as we enjoy it, we don’t see it as much of a priority. As we discussed <a href="https://dailydad.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">over at Daily Dad</a> in an email recently, <a href="https://dailydad.com/you-must-make-time-for-this/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">parents will manage to make time for so many things</a>…but quiet time by or for themselves is written off as an impossible indulgence.</p><p>---</p><p>And in today's Daily Stoic Journal reading, Ryan examines the importance of cultivating a safe and free place to retreat to inside of your own mind.</p><p>✉️&nbsp;Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: <a href="http://dailystoic.com/dailyemail" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail</a></p><p>🏛 Check out the <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Daily Stoic Store</a> for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more, including the <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/products/stillness-key" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stillness Key</a>.</p><p>📱 Follow us: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferr