Self-restraint and impulse control are beneficial, but when reason forcefully subjugates desire until instincts are repressed and life is caged, it becomes a form of spiritual violence.
Self-restraint and impulse control are beneficial, but when reason forcefully subjugates desire until instincts are repressed and life is caged, it becomes a form of spiritual violence.
Stoicism helps when it reins in emotional excess; when it erases intuition, eros and the spirit altogether, it amounts to a lobotomy