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A MEDITATION

“ If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 8.47

On control

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A reflection

The price of suffering is always paid in estimation, not event. You set the price tag. And — here's the quiet power — you can re-tag it, any moment, without asking permission.

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