Today’s Stoic
Consider the soul; it is not disturbed by the things themselves, but by the judgments which it forms about them.
What it means today
The soul is troubled not by events but by its own verdicts. This is the core Stoic claim, repeated because it is so easy to forget: your suffering is in your interpretation.
Try this todayName the event, then name the judgment you added to it, and see the two separately.
Today’s questionWhat verdict am I passing that is causing my own disturbance?