Stillness Is the Key

History’s greatest thinkers shared what prolific author Ryan Holiday calls “stillness,” a sense of calm equanimity that lets you focus on what matters in each moment. Holiday, who also wrote The Ego Is the Enemy and The Daily Stoic, among other books, is a leading contemporary voice on stoicism. Here, he deploys his expertise to help readers find their inner stillness.

“Stillness”

Buddhists called it upekkha; Muslims, aslama. Greek Stoic philosophers spoke of apatheia; and the Bhagavad Gita praised samatvam. The English rendering is “stillness.”