Empowering Our Mind, Not Our Emotions
In the above quote, Marcus Aurelius says about how the outside events that takes place around us traps us into an emotional state which makes us to lose the control of our mind by empowering our emotions. By realizing that we are the only one having power over our mind helps us to make clear decisions in difficult situations.
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