Dancing with wisdom...........................

      In his studies with living teachers like Crates, and his conversations with the dead—that chance encounter with Socrates's teachings that the oracle had predicted—Zeno danced with wisdom.  He explored it in the agora with his students, he had thought deeply about it on long walks and tested it in debates.  His own journey toward wisdom was a long one, some fifty years from that shipwreck until his death.  It was defined not by some single epiphany or discovery but instead by hard work.  He inched his way there, though years of study and training, as we all must.  "Well-being is realized by small steps," he would say, looking back, "but is truly not small thing."

-Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman,  Lives Of The Stoics:  The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius