"If you lay violent hands on me, you'll have my body, but my mind will remain with Stilpo."-ZENO, QUOTED IN DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, 7.1.24
("당신이 내게 폭력을 휘두르면 내 몸은 가질 수 있지만, 내 마음은 여전히 스틸포와 함께 있을 것이다," -제노, 디오게네스 라에르티오스의 저서, <저명한 철학자들의 생애>, 7.1.24.)
Zeno is not claiming magic powers but simply that while his body can be victimized, philosophy prosects his mind-cultivated under his teacher, Stilpo-with an inner fortress whose gates can never be broken from the outside, only surrendered.
Look at Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the boxer wrongly convicted of homicide who spent nearly twenty years in prison. He would say, "I don't acknowledge the existence of the prison. It doesn't exist for me." Of course, the prison literally existed, and he was physically inside it. But he refused to let his mind be contained by it.
That's a power that you have too. Hopefully you'll never have to use this power in a situation of violence or grave injustice; however, in the midst of any and every kind of adversity, it is there. No...
