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Joe Tucker | The Modern Search for Wisdom

The Walled Garden

CHAPTER

The Body Is a River, the Soul a Dream and Mist Slag

The body is a river, the soul a dream and mist slag. The stoics believe you have in your control, choice to your ability to assent. That means that your body is external. Means that it is a part of all of it. And if that's the case, then we are in every thought. We are swimming in the void at all times. You are a river. There is no reason you should not try to flow with everything else because the choice does not flow. I don't mean that politically; i just want people to know how important their choices can be.

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