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Stillness Is The Key (Audiobook) Ryan Holiday

Notus & Friends

CHAPTER

The Importance of Stillness

The soul must be in equally good order if we wish to achieve stillness incongable tranquility. examining our souls is not as easy as clearing our minds you'll find it requires that we peel back what the writer Mark Manson has called the self awareness and take responsibility for our own emotions and impulses. Stillness isn't merely an abstraction something we only think about or feel it's also real it's in our bodies Seneca warned us not to suppose that the soul is at peace when the body is still vice versa. A mind that is overtaxed and ill treated is susceptible a spoiled lazy existence is the manifestation of spiritual emptiness. Indeed we have to be active for the stillness to

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