We, the Legion, the combined desks that make up the mind of this blogger, have come to the unanimous decision that there is some merit to be realized if someone, somewhere, anyone really, were to somehow combine the philosophy of stoicism with the practice of Zen meditation, and then add to that combination the concept of sonder, defined by The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows as "the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk."

Truth, we suspect, lies if not within then not very far from the sweet spot in the Venn diagram where those three things (stoicism, meditation, and sonder) all intersect.