A Stoic Way to Practice Mindfulness

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Such as are your habitual thoughts, so also will be the character of your mind. For the soul is dyed by its thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius

Change your thoughts and you can change your life. That’s how I sometimes paraphrase a central Stoic idea: what unsettles us is rarely the world alone but the judgments we make about events. We don’t control every event…