"For even peace itself will supply more reason for worry. Not even safe circumstances will bring you confidence once your mind has been shocked-once it gets in the habit of blind panic, it can't provide for its own safety. For it doesn't really avoid danger, it just runs away. Yet we are exposed to greater danger with our backs turned."-SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 104.10b
("심지어 평화 그 자체도 더 많은 걱정거리를 가져다줄 것입니다. 한 번 마음이 충격을 받으면, 안전한 상황조차도 당신에게 자신감을 주지 못합니다. 마음이 맹목적인 공포에 익숙해지면, 스스로를 안전하게 지킬 수 없습니다. 마음은 실제로 위험을 피하는 것이 아니라 단지 도망치려고 할 뿐입니다. 하지만 등을 돌린 채로 더 큰 위험에 노출될 수 있습니다."- 세네카, 모랄 레터스, 104.10b)
There's an old proverb that money doesn't change people, it just makes them more of who they are. Robert Caro has written that "power doesn't corrupt, it reveals." In some ways, prosperity-financial and personal-is the same way.
If your mind has developed a certain cast-the habit of panicking, in Seneca's example-then it won't matter how good things get for you. You're still primed for panic. Your mind will still find ...
