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“Jealousy flared up and I redirected it into trust instead of an interrogation.”
The old reflex was to dig, to question, to follow the jealous thought wherever it led. This time you felt it and turned the other way — toward trust, toward your own steadiness. Redirecting immediately kept a good thing from being poisoned by a passing feeling.
Your Practice
- Notice the jealous thought as a feeling, not a fact.
- Ask: 'Is there real evidence, or just the old reflex?'
- Redirect into one act of trust instead of investigation.
- Tend your own steadiness; that's the part that's actually yours.
The Architects
“Of things some are in our power, and others are not. In our power are opinion, movement towards a thing, desire, aversion; and in a word, whatever are our own acts.”
— Epictetus, Enchiridion, ch. I (George Long translation)