The Stoic is A Work in Progress

Instead of seeing philosophy as an end to which one aspires, see it as something one applies. Not occasionally, but over the course of a life  making incremental progress along the way. Sustained execution, not shapeless epiphanies.

Epictetus loved to shake his students out of their smug satisfaction with their own progress. He wanted to remind them and now you of the constant work and serious training needed every day if we are ever to approach that perfect form.

It’s important for us to remember in our own journey to self-improvement: one never arrives. The sage the perfect Stoic who behaves perfectly in every situation is an ideal, not an end.