9 Ways to Find Stillness in Turbulent Times

Everyone from the Stoics to the Buddhists knew the importance of this essential virtue

Ryan Holiday
Forge
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6 min readSep 14, 2020

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Young Black woman writing in her journal.
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Perhaps it takes something as tumultuous as our current world to clarify what that word stillness means. When we hear it, we know the importance of it, intuitively and instinctively: The quiet. The gratitude. The ability to step back and reflect…

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Ryan Holiday
Forge
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