The Source of Joy for the Stoics

Stoics placed more empasis on personal responsibility than therly christians did. Marcus aurelius says that normally people imagine absent things as if they were present, and they ire them. So you're imagining wher' like to have something you don't have. And it causes a sense of longing or nay your real situation. It's mal adaptive as well, cause you're responding to something rather than responding to what you currently have. You can do the opposite - cultivate gratitude. What was like reading the bible by candlelight in winter? That was like wining  Lyada with my stilletos... i think jesus man, you know,