The ruling faculty
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the mind · ruling faculty · the ruling faculty · governing mind · guardian spirit · intellectual part · intelligent power · poor soul · ruling and sovereign part of the soul · ruling faculties
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Meditations (Greek)
The governing reason knows how it is disposed, and what it does, and upon what material.
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Meditations
The governing, rational part of the self that interprets events and forms judgments.
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.
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.