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Queendragonfly Disclaimer: I am not all knowledgeable, and don't claim to understand everything, but I can try to explain what I have understood from the little reading I have done about Stoicism as well as other spiritual books.....😊
Perception, Action, Will.
Those are the three overlapping but critical disciplines of Stoicism. There’s more to the Stoic philosophy certainly but the following sums up the three most essential parts worth keeping in mind:
1. Certainty of Judgement: Be perceptive of your perceptions, or simply put, don't jump to conclusions without knowing everything, or don't assume or don't judge too quickly. Be unbiased.
2. Action for the common good: Direct your actions properly or in other words be focused on whatever you do, or don't let the attention waver, be focused on what you are doing. What one does may affect more than one individual, so we have to be very cautious in our actions. (Action in terms of thought, word and deed....)
3. Gratitude for anything that comes your way: Willingly accept what’s outside your control. Every action we do has a consequence. We have a control on the actions we perform but not on the consequences of the actions, mostly. So we need to do whatever needs to be done and accept whatever is the outcome.
Now, that does not mean we sit quiet if the results are not as we intended, but we again go back to point no.1 - try to understand what is to be done and then to No.2 - where we perform actions as needed and then wait for the results.... so its a cycle..
The success of the action depends on the certainty of our judgement as that decides the action to be performed.
I hope I have not bored you ans managed to unclutter to some extent...
P.S: If there is anyone else on SW who has a different / better understanding, pls feel free to chip in!!! I will be very happy to learn / understand... 😊
