Value-Judgments
The beautiful thing about Stoic philosophy is the advice contained within it is just as applicable today as it was when it was first written all those many years ago. We can learn a great deal from interpreting the advice provided and using it to our advantage as we go throughout our own lives.
Today’s quote comes to us courtesy of Epictetus:
Quote
“We, not externals, are masters of our judgments.”
Advice
Too often, we find ourselves wrapped up in the pull of the external world. We are drawn to the clothes, the fancy cars, the big house. Yet, the Stoics, while successful, held fast that the value-judgments we placed on external things is the harm that we do not realize we are doing. We are saddened or disappointed when we do not get a certain present or the luxury watch. True virtue lies within and therefore, the judgments we place on external things as being good or bad comes from our own sense rather than what the item actually is. The internal judgments control the external value of things.
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