Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise

Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise

On control

Stoics and Buddhists

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Richard L. Johnson
Apr 26, 2021
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The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where do I look for good and evil? Not to the externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own. -Epictetus, Discourses

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