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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke...more

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Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn or move it. The soul alone turns and moves itself, ...more

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Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.