Great Escape

30 Reflections on Stoicism, Faith, and the Wisdom of Great Stories
This book is a challenge to disenchanted timesa return to the stories that gave you courage, wisdom, and hope when you needed it most.
This book is a challenge to disenchanted timesa return to the stories that gave you courage, wisdom, and hope when you needed it most.

Most of us experience the modern world as either terrifying or boring. Cynicism, division, endless news, and addictive tech leave us feeling anxious, distracted, and off-balance. Worst of all, were told the world is no longer full of wonder and magic like the great stories promised. Its time to return to our true selves.

Great Escape is a challenge to disenchanted times and argues that before we ever needed self-help, we absorbed time-tested wisdom through books and movies. The Stoic philosophy of Marcus Aurelius and Seneca left fingerprints on the works of C.S. Lewis and Ge