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If you are content with little, you need little; and needing little, you are free.
Epictetus · Discourses · paraphrase
What it means today

Contentment is the direct road to freedom. The fewer things you need, the fewer masters you have. The more you can do without, the less can be done to you.

Try this todayDo without one thing today that you usually reach for, and notice the freedom.
Today’s questionWhat am I needing, that is keeping me unfree?
#contentment#freedom#simplicity
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