this hit hard

Stoicism gave us much-needed tools for self-mastery. But when those tools are pointed outward, when the philosophy is used to justify indifference or cruelty, it becomes something else. Stoic Sadism is not the inevitable outcome of reading Epictetus, but it is a temptation that we’d do well to guard against. The work is to cultivate endurance... See more

it’s not that we don’t know who we are. it’s that we’re finally brave enough to question the versions of us that were designed to survive, not to thrive.

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