Using Stoicism To Reclaim Your Innocence

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There’s a chapter in Anthony de Mello’s The Way to Love entitled Become Like Children. It outlines how a child can be influenced to lose its innocence and subsequently live a life that is so dependent on externals that they never truly know who they are.

This may sound like an abstract notion, but I’ll get to real examples shortly to better illustrate it.