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Stillness Is the Key
THE DOMAIN OF THE BODY
Ryan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
ON TO WHAT’S NEXT .
Ryan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
The Christian word for this term is agape. It is the ecstasy of love from a higher power, the sheer luck and good fortune of being made in that image.
Ryan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
When we feel our temper rising up, we need to look for insertion points (the space between stimulus and response). Points where we can get up and walk away. When we can say, “I am getting upset by this and I would like not to lose my cool about it,” or “This doesn’t matter and I’m not going to hold on to it.”
Ryan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
ALL IS ONE
Ryan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
And what of the people whose anger is more of a hot flash than a slow burn? Seneca once more: There is no more stupefying thing than anger, nothing more bent on its own strength. If successful, none more arrogant, if foiled, none more insane—since it’s not driven back by weariness even in defeat, when fortune removes its adversary it turns its teet
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staffers in his last hours in the White House: “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.”
Ryan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. —PROVERBS 16:32
Ryan Holiday • Stillness Is the Key
CONQUER YOUR ANGER