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36/365: Marcus Aurelius on perception

Bad winds will move against you. Accounts will go up and down. You’ll experience loss. But you’ll also experience the favorable winds and the gains.

Perception is power. Not fortune and favorable tides. Perception.

Marcus Aurelius says there is strength in this realization. That control belongs only to the folds of the mind, our perception of the events that occur.

What outside events are knocking on your door?