We suffer more in imagination than in reality - Seneca
The core of stoicism is the very definition of acceptance and indifference. We don’t have control on what happens to us, but we do have control on how it affects us. The real definition of stoicism is “a way to view, describe and understand the world. It’s a way of life.”
Stoicism allow us to process negative thoughts from negative experience and turn them into the thoughts that give us unique/different perspective of world.
Attaching any external hopes from people or things will always lead us to disappointment. This means we should not be dependent on any external hopes or expectation.
Learning to live with less will create space in your life for the things that truly matters to you. - Seneca
Try to control our mind, choose to do our best to keep our head/mind cool. It does not matter what world/nature throws to you, but what you make out of it matters the most.
In the end of day, we do not have control over things that happen to us (majority things).
Striving towards our goal is good trait, but breaking down when those things don’t go your way is, in a stoic point of view…is useless.
4 Main Virtues of Stoicism
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Wisdom
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Courage
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Temperance
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Justice
Wisdom
wisdom is being able to seperate between what is internal and what is external the ability to choose out reaction to things happen to use.
Between stimulas and response, there is a space, in that space is our power to choose our response
Courage
Persist and Resist
Temperance
Temperance is doing more with less,saying more with fewer words.
Justice
No one should harm to each other, we’re born of each other.