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Epictetus on Happiness and Control
What is within our control? This simple question lies at the heart of Stoic philosophy. Epictetus begins his handbook for living with the disarming line: “Some things are up to us and some are not.” Within our power are opinion, motivation, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever is of…
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Marcus Aurelius on inner contentment
Marcus Aurelius said that pain either affects the body or the soul. Only one of them do you have any say over. “The soul can choose not to be affected, preserving its own serenity, its own tranquillity. All our decisions, urges, desires, aversions lie within. No evil can touch them.”…
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A Practical Guide: To slowing down in every part of your home
Start with one room, not the whole house. That was the mistake I made early on. I thought change had to happen all at once to count. But slower routines tend to stick when they are built in small ways and repeated often enough that they stop feeling like effort…