Variant: If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Source: Meditations
“If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you.”
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Yoko Ono
9 October 2009.
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