"The person who follows reason in all things will have both leisure and a readiness to act-they are at once both cheerful and self- composed."-MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 10.12b
("모든 일에서 이성을 따르는 사람은 여가와 행동의 준비성을 동시에 갖추게 되며, 그는 언제나 밝고 침착할 것입니다." - 마르쿠스 아우렐리우스, 《명상록》 10.12b )
The guiding reason of the world-the Stoics called this the logos- works in mysterious ways. Sometimes, the logos gives us what we want, other times it gives us precisely what we do not want. In either case, they believed that the logos was an all-powerful force that governed the universe.
There is a helpful analogy to explain the logos: We are like a dog leashed to a moving cart. The direction of the cart will determine where we go. Depending on the length of the leash, we also have a fair amount of room to explore and determine the pace, but ultimately what each of us must choose is ...