Reference: Epictetus: "Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene."
Reference: Montaigne: "If I had to live over again, I would live as I have lived."
Principle: Go with the flow and relinquish control of the process.
Insight: Montaigne considered amor fati as one of the answers to the question of how to live.
Definition: Freedom from anxiety, equilibrium, the art of maintaining an even keel.
Insight: The Greeks believed that the best way to achieve eudaimonia (human flourishing) was through ataraxia.
Insight: To attain ataraxia means having control over your emotions.
Reference: The Pyrrhonians aimed to attain a condition of relaxation about everything on the path to ataraxia.
Reference: Montaigne also believed in achieving human flourishing through balance, or ataraxia.
"Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene."
- Epictetus
Principle: Cultivate a love of fate - Amor Fati.
Definition: Often translated as "happiness", "joy", or "human flourishing".
Insight: Eudaimonia is to live well in every sense by thriving, enjoying life, and living virtuously.
Insight: The Greeks believed that the best path to eudaimonia was "ataraxia" or "freedom from anxiety". This means to maintain an even keel, to never get too high or too low, to have control over ones emotions.
Reference: Montaigne had an audience of those fascinated by the question of how to live well and achieve eudaimonia in the face of suffering.
Reference: Montaigne believed in ataraxia or balance as the path to achieving eudaimonia.
