The Inner Kingdom

The Inner Kingdom is a daily devotional that reads the Stoic philosophers alongside the teachings of Jesus and the insights of depth psychology. This volume covers October and its theme is suffering: finding meaning in pain rather than explaining it away. Each day pairs a short quotation from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca or Epictetus with a passage from the Gospels and a plain, practical reflection on how the two traditions arrive at similar conclusions about the inner life. Compiled by Red Balanga, it is the first of a planned twelve monthly volumes, one for each month of the year.