No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. Like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, “No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.” 7.15 Then where is the harm to be found? In your capacity to see it. Stop doing that and everything will be fine. 4.39 Wash yourself clean. With simplicity, with humility, with indifference to everything but right and wrong. Care for other human beings. Follow God. 7.31 It’s the pursuit of these things, and your attempts to avoid them, that leave your mind in such turmoil. And yet they aren’t seeking you out; you are the one seeking them.Suspendjudgmentabout them. And at once they will lie still, and you will be freed from fleeing and pursuing. 11.11 The things ordained for you–teach yourself to be at one with those. And to the people who share them with you–treat them with love. With real love. 6.39

Tim Ferriss Show – Naval Ravikant on Happiness, Reducing Anxiety, Crypto Stablecoins, and Crypto Strategy (#473) What is divinedeservesour respect because it is good; what is human deserves our affection because it is like us. 2.13 It would be wrong for anything to stand between you and attaining goodness — as a rational being and a citizen. 3.6 Externalthings are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them… And if it’s that you’re not doingsomethingyou think you should be, why not just do it? 8.47 The mind without passion is a fortress. No place is more secure. Once we take refuge there we are safe forever. 8.48Objectivejudgment now at this very moment. Unselfish action, now at this very moment. Willing acceptance, now at this very moment. Of all external events. That’s all you need. 9.6 Forget the future. When and if it comes, you’ll have the same resources to draw on–the same logos. 7.8

To follow the logos in all things is to be relaxed and energetic, joyful and serious at once. 10.12 At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work–as a human being…I am going to what I was born for.” 5.1

The discipline of perception requires that we maintain absolute objectivity of thought: that we see things dispassionately for what they are. The third discipline of will is in a sense the counterpart to the second, the discipline of action. Action governs our approach to the things in our control. The discipline of will governs our attitude to things that are not within our control Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? Can any process take place without something being changed? 7.18 To have that. Not a cistern but a perpetual spring. How? By working to win your freedom. Hour by hour. Throughpatience, honesty, and humility. 8.51