{"id":1531,"date":"2024-02-09T17:35:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T01:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2024-02-09T17:35:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T01:35:57","slug":"everybody-has-an-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/the-daily-stoic\/02\/09\/everybody-has-an-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody Has an Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
“We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind \u2014 for things have no natural power to shape our judgments.”<\/p>MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS<\/em>, 6.52<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
What about all the things you’re not even aware of? Things that you don’t even know<\/em> about, that were out of sight & out of mind? Things that might have affected you, but you just completely missed them? You don’t have an opinion about those things at all<\/em>, because you don’t know about them. That’s the point made in today’s chapter of The Daily Stoic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And consider the freedom you have, by not<\/em> knowing about those things, and not<\/em> being burdened with forming an opinion about them! The absolute liberation from anxiety that comes by not<\/em> thinking about them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n