Chapter XXI
by Epictetus • Book 21
This chapter helps you confront your deepest fears, like death and exile, by bringing them into daily awareness. It empowers you to break their hold over you so you can live without desperation or despair.
“Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible, be daily before your eyes, but death chiefly; and you will never entertain an abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.”
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This chapter helps you make peace with mortality and release the anxiety of things outside your control. It invites you to recognize that a fulfilling life is measured by your integrity in the present moment rather than the length of your years, allowing you to face life's end with quiet contentment.
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This chapter helps you make peace with impermanence and release the paralyzing fear of loss and mortality. By reminding you to savor life's gifts without clinging possessively, it guides you toward inner freedom and readiness for whatever life demands.