# Inner Citadel Created On: 11-01-2022 11:03 am Up:: [[Stoicism (MOC)]] Tags:: #note/evergreen🌲 Topics:: [[Amor Fati (MOC)]], [[Perception]] Related:: --- The inner citadel is a stoic metaphor of the barrier that exists between our mind and the influences in this world. In a profoundly empowering way, it speaks to the control that we have to manage our [[Perception]] of events, especially bad ones, in our life. The allegory speaks to the fortified walls that are predominately effective at keeping people, such as marauders, away from the citid, but when the gates are opened from within, there is nothing that can be done; it has been willingly given up. Therefore... how often do you open your inner citadel's gates?