“Understand at last that you have something in you more powerful and divine than what causes the bodily passions and pulls you like a mere puppet. What thoughts now occupy my mind? Is it not fear, suspicion, desire, or something like that?”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 12.19
Far too many people fail to understand this point. There are just so many victims, and I’m not talking about true victims, the ones who are harmed from crime or accident. The first step is realizing the power you have over these false thoughts.