The ruling faculty
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Meditations (Greek)
The ruling faculty is that which rouses and turns itself, and makes itself such as it wills, and makes everything that befalls appear to itself such as it wills.
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Meditations
The governing, rational part of the self that interprets events and forms judgments.
The ruling power within, when it is in accordance with nature, stands toward whatever befalls in such a way that it can always adapt itself easily to what is possible and granted.
Look closely into their ruling faculties — even the wise — and see what they shun and what they pursue.
Your evil does not subsist in another's ruling faculty, nor indeed in any turn or alteration of your surroundings.