Practice poverty.

Practice poverty.

Especially during prosperous times in your life, the Stoics believe you should practice poverty. This is how you prepare for hardship and become an expert in dealing with the ups and downs of life. Comfort can become a form of slavery because you consistently start to think that someone could take away what you have.

You must disrupt yourself.

You must disrupt yourself.

Disruptions to serenity cannot be avoided.

Disruptions to serenity cannot be avoided.

We don’t control events, but we do control what they mean.

We don’t control events, but we do control what they mean.

Stoicism is more a meditative practice that allows us to take the negative feelings we experience, and turn them into thoughts that give us peacefulness and perspective on life.

Stoicism is more a meditative practice that allows us to take the negative feelings we experience, and turn them into thoughts that give us peacefulness and perspective on life.

SHUBHO BIJOYA

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