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The storm rages outside; be calm within, and the storm cannot touch you.
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations · paraphrase
What it means today

Outer events are a storm; the inner self can be a shelter. Calm is not the absence of the storm; it is the steadiness inside it.

Try this todayWhen the storm of the day rises, stay calm within, as in a shelter.
Today’s questionAm I trying to calm the storm, or to be calm within it?
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