Tag: simpleideas

The other day I wrote about stoicism and control. While I was reading about stoicism I was also learning about mindfulness, and I found some really interesting overlapping ideas. In that post I had written; We control our reaction to others. We control how we feel about the world around us. We control whether we…

In one sense, we are powerless. We cannot control anything external to us. Oh sure, we can take our little brother’s hand and smack him in the face, saying “stop hitting yourself.” This is nothing. We cannot control who our brother is. We cannot make a person evolve. We cannot make them love us. We…