La libertà non è la capacità di cambiare le circostanze esterne. È la capacità di rimanere fedeli alla propria natura profonda dentro qualsiasi circostanza.
Freedom is not the ability to change external circumstances. It is the ability to stay true to your deepest nature in any circumstance.
Info & reflection: Epictetus via Celli: freedom read as inner faithfulness, not as control of your surroundings. Real freedom doesn't depend on what happens outside; it depends on how far you manage to stay yourself inside whatever happens.
Related in anthology
- Non è ciò che volevo: I principi naturali della crescita personale contro il mito del successo per obiettivi — freedom as inner faithfulness is the core of Celli's argument against growth measured by external results
- The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. — the opposite of inner freedom: living in the cages of other people's thoughts