HKB
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Often appears with: will, choice, and freedom · temperance and self-mastery · ruling faculty · imagination control · contentment
Usually: argument (1) · temptation (1) · exhortation (1)
He teaches that present understanding, social-minded conduct, and contentment with whatever happens are sufficient, and then gives a regimen: wipe imagination, curb desire, extinguish appetite, and keep reason in control.
the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature. 32. Thou canst remove out of the way many useless things among those which disturb thee, for they lie entirely in thy opinion; and thou wilt then gain for thyself ample space by comprehending the whole universe in thy mind, and by contemplating the etern…