10 Themes of Stoicism (Things the parents thought were important)
They were both informed (more so my mother) and uninformed (but, repeating the same beliefs). Marcus Aurelius was one of the books in the 'library'. Would have been more authoritative with an 'Oxfordian' reading the 'script', but... Dad always said things like "You can't rely on other people for YOUR FEELINGS". I thought this was a 'nonsense saying', when I was young. The meaning WAS: If you don't value yourself, then other people will not value you/ your thoughts. It also meant that strength to live, abolition of 'loneliness', the ability to ignore the 'mass opinion' is within mind/soul/personality. What other people view in you, is as unimportant as what you view in them. They are not in your body/soul/mind and they are not in yours! 10 Themes of Stoicism 10 Themes of Stoicism (Part 2) However, many of these are not 'written in stone', while discipline is important...the 'rea...