How to Escape Mental Enslavement

The infamous Stoic philosopher Seneca once wrote….

“Show me a man who is not a slave…..one is a slave to lust, another to greed, another to ambition, and all men are slaves to fear.”

All humans subject themselves to mental enslavement. Historical conquerors, politicians, the CEOs of today, your bosses––all of them rule over many many people, yet fail to rule their own minds.

The most recognizable Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius wrote in Meditations…

“Alexander and Caesar and Pompey. Compared with Diogenes, Heraclitus, Socrates? The philosophers knew the what, the why, the how. Their minds were their own. The others? Nothing but anxiety and enslavement.”

Stoic philosophers look to teach us to think beyond our emotional instability––free us from mental enslavement, free us from the turbulence of our emotions.

Aurelius himself faced his own mental demons….

“Stop allowing your mind to be a slave, to be jerked about by selfish impulses, to kick against fate and…