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Effortless Stoicism
Effortless Stoicism comes to you when you no longer feel the need to control your emotions, when they no longer seem significant.
If we stop reacting to our emotions, then gradually we can develop the perspective to observe the causes of these emotions that we witness inside us. Shedding all illusions, we come to know that all misery and happiness are temporary, and therefore all reactions are unfounded and unjustified.
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The root cause of all misery is desire. Our wanting creates our pain.
When we start to ask nothing from the world, we can experience a true sense of freedom.
We live our lives reactively, sitting on the endless roller-coaster of happiness and misery.
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The Stoics prescribed the use of “exercises” to strengthen and internalize our intellectual understanding of Stoic precepts, so that we are prepared to meet a range of misfortunes, whether minor irritations or serious adversities, with equanimity.
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Stoicism is made up of conflicting writings, especially around God, determinism vs free will, happiness vs avoidance of pain etc. Today most Stoic fans are practicing a cafeteria approach: picking up the few useful bits, modifying others, discarding the rest.
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