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34: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Book 3 - Passage 13

Marcus Aurelius' Meditations for Modern Life

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Stowess Is a Mindset

Stowess is a mindset whereby an injury to your mind that is not of nature, that someone else has tried to inflict on you by words or the injuries that you may feel. The loss of a loved one, the breakdown of a relationship, those things that are happening are all events that the response is within our control. When you see how each of those at the time painful experiences led to something that became one of the greatest things in your life, then you realize that the pain that you feel to events that may be happening now or that will happen in the future is going to be just the same as those. That experience shouldn't be seen as a negative because you just haven't

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