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Amazon.com   p. 447    All men's difficulties and perplexities
are concerned with external things. 'What am I to do?' 'How is
it to be done?' 'How is it to turn out?' 'I fear this or that
may befall me.' All these phrases are used by persons occupied
with matters outside their will. For who says, 'How am I to
refuse assent to the false?' 'How am I to refuse to swerve from
the true?' If a man is so gifted by nature as to be anxious
about these things, I will remind him: 'Why are you anxious? It
rests with you: be not troubled. Be not over-hasty in assent,
before you have applied the rule of nature.'  Again, if he is
anxious about his will to get, lest it should fail of its object
and miss the mark, and about his will to avoid, lest it should
fall into what it avoids, first of all I will salute him,
because he has got rid of the excitements and fears of other
men, and has turned his thoughts to his own business where his
true self lies. Then I shal