Stoicism for Inner Peace

Their worries about the future make them so uptight and sometimes so paralyzed, while the heavy burden of the past is resting on their shoulders.

And, regardless of what the future brings, no one takes away our power to make the best of it.

Ownership is just an idea. It’s an illusion. In reality, we can never truly own something that is beyond our control. If we could, then nothing in the world would be able to separate us from what’s ours.

The teachings of Epictetus are very clear about this: our peace of mind is more important than outside affairs.

The Stoic you, however, has a different approach. It fully embraces fate no matter what

Anxiety isn’t caused by the environment. It’s caused by the position we take towards the environment.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die: it’s a waste of time.

As Jean-Paul Sartre once stated: “If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.”

When things can’t go wrong, there’s nothing to worry about. When there’s nothing to worry about, the fear of the future won’t sap our energy and make us feel miserable. By unconditionally embracing our destiny, we have nothing to fear.