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It is not death or pain that is dreadful, but the fear of death or pain.
Epictetus · Enchiridion · paraphrase
What it means today

The thing itself and the fear of the thing are two different matters. Often the fear is worse than the thing, and it is the fear that we should address first.

Try this todaySeparate one fear from the thing feared, and look at the thing itself directly.
Today’s questionAm I dreading the thing, or my fear of it?
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