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<p>But you have one advantage here: you can reattach yourself. A privilege God has granted to no other part of no other whole&mdash;to be separated, cut away, and reunited. But look how he’s singled us out. He’s allowed us not to be broken off in the first place, and when we are he’s allowed us to return, to graft ourselves back on, and take up our old position once again: part of a whole.</p>
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<p><a href="#book8-35" class="return">&#35;</a> <strong id="book8-35">8.35</strong> We have various abilities, present in all rational creatures as in the nature of rationality itself. And this is one of them. <mark title="The Daily Stoic: August 16th">Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it&mdash;turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself&mdash;so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.</mark></p>
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<p><a href="#book8-36" class="return">&#35;</a> <strong id="book8-36">8.36</strong> <mark title="The Daily Stoic: June 19th">Don’t let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole. Don’t try to picture everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand, and ask, “Why is this so unbearable? Why can’t I endure it?” You’ll be embarrassed to answer.</mark></p>
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<p>Then remind yourself that past and future have no power over you. Only the present&mdash;and even that can be minimized. Just mark off its limits. And if your mind tries to claim that it can’t hold out against <em>that</em> &hellip; well, then, heap shame upon it.</p>
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<p>Then remind yourself that the past and future have no power over you. Only the present&mdash;and even that can be minimized. Just mark off its limits. And if your mind tries to claim that it can’t hold out against <em>that</em> &hellip; well, then, heap shame upon it.</p>
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<p><a href="#book8-37" class="return">&#35;</a> <strong id="book8-37">8.37</strong> Are <a href="#pantheia">Pantheia</a> or <a href="#pergamos">Pergamos</a> still keeping watch at the tomb of <a href="#verus3">Verus</a>? <a href="#chabrias">Chabrias</a> or <a href="#diotimus">Diotimus</a> at the tomb of <a href="#hadrian2">Hadrian</a>? Of course they aren’t. Would the emperors know it if they were?</p>
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<p>And even if they knew, would it please them?</p>
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<p>And even if it did, would the mourners live forever? Were they, too, not fated to grow old and then die? And when that happened, what would the emperors do?</p>

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