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How To Be Free | Epictetus

The Daily Stoic

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Embracing Adversity and Inner Strength

Challenges are welcomed as opportunities to showcase resilience and inner strength. The speaker expresses readiness to face any situation, whether holding or leaving office, enduring pain, or exile. Inner principles serve as a source of strength and contentment, transcending external circumstances. The inevitability of death is accepted with grace and perspective, as the return to the source of existence. The superficial fears instilled by tyrants and guards hold no power, as the speaker feels liberated by God and aligned with higher commands.

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