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Today · Stoicism · Day 1
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment now.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.47
Marcus wrote this to himself as emperor of Rome, a man with almost unlimited power who still could not control plague, betrayal, or the weather.
Today, when something rattles you, ask one question: is this mine to control, or not? Pour your energy into your response and let the rest go.
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