Greetings Readers!
Here is the next volume of our series — Letters to a Young Seeker (Catch up on previous volumes: Don’t Forget to Live, Break Bread with the Dead, Live an Examined Life, Carry the Fire, The Art of Optimism, Think Like a Mortal, Trust Thyself, The Art of Being, Freedom and Responsibility, Becoming Who You Are, Certainty Brings Ruins, and Beyond Mountains, Are More Mountains).
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Dear Fellow Traveler,
Heraclitus was an ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher who lived around 500 BCE in Ephesus (present-day Turkey). He was heir to the throne of Ephesus, which he gave up to search for wisdom! Although difficult to understand, his philosophy influenced figures like Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Nietzsche, Hegel, and many others. Socrates supposedly said when asked about Heraclitus's writings, “The part I understand is excellent, and so too, I dare is the part I don’t understand.”
One of Heraclitus’s sayings is, "The way up and the way down are one and the same." He believed in the cyclic recurrence of all things. For Heraclitus, the same is true of human life: "In us, the living and the dead, wakefulness and sleep, youth and old age, are one and the same: for the ones are changed into the others.”
