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I think the idea is not to give up on your emotions and be an inanimate machine-like creature, but indeed to embrace your emotions, to be in a deeper cohesion w

I think the idea is not to give up on your emotions and be an inanimate machine-like creature, but indeed to embrace your emotions, to be in a deeper cohesion with them. "The power of attachment should be as strong as the power of detachment", which is of course a much harder task than just detaching from everything.

Robotbeat 6y ago
The ancient stoics definitely seem to be talking about tempering the positive as well as the negative emotions. I listened to Aurelius, and it seemed pretty clear that this is what he was referring to.