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The Art of the Inner Citadel
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Books IV and VIII)
The Stoic Citadel@stoic_citadel•3 min read
The Untouchable Core1 / 3
Things in themselves cannot touch the soul in the slightest degree. They have no admission to our inner sanctum; all distress is born strictly of the judgment we place upon them.
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The mind that is free from passions is a citadel; we have no safer place to take refuge.
The Threshold of Assent2 / 3
Between the stimulus and your response lies a sacred space. A catastrophe is merely an objective fact until your mind labels it an intolerable evil.
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Remove the judgment 'I am hurt', and the hurt itself vanishes.
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