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The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

The Classical Mind

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Lady Philosophies Symbolism and Practical Application

Your interior life is impassable so that you can take comfort in um, these these internal both Your internal life and the sort of external But by this we mean like sort of the eternal things that we can contemplate when we talk about philosophy Right. Those are your sources of of contentment so that then the external material world Just becomes a matter of um Yeah,. You become impassable and by impassable here We just mean you're not sort of causally affected by it. So I'm using passable in a slightly Metaphorical sense because you can still of course be causally affected By the world, but it's emotionally you are impassable right? A good parallel

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