Wednesday, December 8, 2021

In an unpredictable world.................................

      Perhaps these are the ideal conditions in which Stoicism emerges:  a homeland lacking strong leadership and buffeted by powerful outside forces; a ringside seat to the perils of excess and greed.  It was all an early lesson that in an unpredictable world, the only thing we can really manage is ourselves — and that the space between our ears is the only territory we can conquer in any kind of certain and enduring way.

-Ryan Holiday, Lives Of The Stoics:  The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

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