#rationality #wisdom # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought # Related - [[Negotiation]] # Low expectations ![heaven, puffy white clouds, cinematic, dramatic, cinematic lighting, godrays, lightrays from the sun, heavens gate, big white pearly gates, god, jesus, sheep, white clouds, stairway to heaven, extremely intricate, highly detailed, 8 k, beautiful scenery ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/037d0e3e-4c56-4717-a6a8-85c562f65898) >Don’t hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace. >~ [[Epictetus]] ![Stairway to heaven by Tomasz Alen Kopera and salvator Dali, masterpiece](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/09c320f7-fa45-4c26-b57f-89be5cd0869a) ![a symbol, a copy of a facsimile, never one - to - one, creation is in the entropy. mandala - yin - yang this side the hyperplane, seeing all sides a bit insane, perfect glass diamond a prison prisms light, sheen shine divine a mirror - box plight ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/09ce0942-a700-47c1-b1f0-0de131737c36) >Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life. >~ [[Epictetus]] ![weaver worker in a spider web, technical diagram ](https://lexica-serve-encoded-images.sharif.workers.dev/md/14ca295e-7004-4312-8b36-fdffaeb35de0)