Not All Inner Citadels Are Good Places

The image of a person having an "inner citadel" of the mind, which can be drawn upon as a resource and refuge, has proven particularly attractive to Stoics, so much so that Pierre Hadot took that catch-phrase as a title for his book, The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius .

Marcus talks about this at several points.  The citadel or fortress image comes up in this passage:

Remember that when it withdraws into itself and finds contentment there, the mind is invulnerable. It doe...