Seneca compared the steady mind to a deep sea: storms churn the surface, but far below the water stays calm. Things will go wrong today, some of them out of nowhere. You cannot control the weather of events, but you can keep a quiet floor inside yourself that the storm does not reach. This calm is not coldness or not caring. It is a kind of inner ballast you build by practice, by remembering that you have weathered hard days before and are still here. When pressure rises, drop your attention from the churning surface down to that steadier place: your breath, your feet, the one next right action. The waves can do what waves do. You can still hold.

Inspired by the old idea of inner steadiness. Written by Ugo Charles.