Follow Sleepy Stoicism so the next quiet hour is waiting 🔴 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@BayBorealImmersive 🟣 Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sleepy-stoicism/id6791053738 🛖 Come in, drifters. If you have been going to bed feeling like the day was empty, like nothing in it left a mark, this episode follows a young man who sat at a crossroads on a mountain at dusk and was offered two completely different lives: one that promised comfort without effort, and one that promised effort without apology. The story is an ancient one, first told by the sophist Prodicus and retold by Stoics for five centuries after him, and it is recorded tonight from Irishtown Nature Park. 💤 Fitbit Air Sleep Tracker - The most comfortable sleep tracker https://link.amazon/B0dIkIrsU 😮💨 Breathe Right Extra Strength - Strips for snoring https://amzn.to/4bDZFgY Affiliate links support the show at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Tonight, this sleep story follows Hercules to a fork in a mountain road where two strangers make their cases for what a life should contain. One offers food before hunger, wine before thirst, and beds so soft they must be rocked because sleep will not come on its own. The other offers labor, care, honest tiredness, and the kind of rest that arrives without being chased. It is a story about what fills an empty life, told alongside Epictetus on the monsters we imagine and Musonius Rufus, who was exiled to a barren island and dug a freshwater spring out of bare rock with his hands. If you have been lying awake wondering whether your days hold anything worth being tired from, this is the question the Stoics kept asking for five hundred years. Wherever sleep meets you along the way, let it. 🌲 Recorded at Irishtown Nature Park in New Brunswick, Canada, at the overflowing dam after heavy rain. Every sound beneath the narration comes from that real recording. 📜 Primary source: Xenophon, Memorabilia, Book II, Chapter 1, sections 21 to 34 (E.C. Marchant translation, 1923). Supporting: Epictetus, Discourses I.6.32-36 (W.A. Oldfather translation, 1925); Seneca, De Beneficiis I.13.3 (J.W. Basore translation, 1935); Cicero, De Officiis I.118 (Walter Miller translation, 1913); Musonius Rufus via Cora Lutz, "Musonius Rufus: The Roman Socrates" (Yale Classical Studies, 1947). 🤍 Created and produced by Luc Richard. Field recording, video, and photography captured on location by Luc Richard. Narration is AI-generated with ElevenLabs. The place and every ambient sound are real. 💬 Tell me what fills your day. Not what you wish filled it, but what actually does. I read every one. Sleep well. The spring is still filling its basin in the dark, and you do not need to watch it. 🌊
