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Wisdom from Zen, Stoicism, and Modern Thinkers on Being Present

Oct 03, 2025

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Presence isn’t just some trendy buzzword — it’s a survival skill. Most of what we stress over never actually happens, yet we burn today worrying about tomorrow. That’s not resilience, that’s self-sabotage. The Stoics nailed it: control your mind, not the world. When you finally stop trying to wrestle with things outside your hands, the noise dies down a…

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