"It is within our power not to..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius
It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.
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More on Judgment
“In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.”
“People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.”
“Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.”
More on Control
“That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.”
“The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.”
“Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.”