The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks

Pain Is a Problem for the Body, Not The Mind

Jon Brooks

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Sickness is a problem for the body, not the mind – unless the mind decides that it is a problem. Lameness, too, is the body’s problem, not the mind’s. Say this to yourself whatever the circumstance and you will find without fail that the problem pertains to something else, not to you.
Epictetus