“One can easily see that Epictetus’ main concern was how to adopt an intellectual framework that will allow the individual to unshackle himself from the limits that our problematic relationships create.

He was a firm believer of the fact that an individual can only be free if he frees himself from his limiting beliefs and also his addiction to the opinions of others. He was one of the first to see that there is a way for one to be in control insofar as one can control only the things that are within his control.

Opinions, perceptions, views, beliefs, stories, are all manifestations of how our mind adapts to the stimuli of the environment. Sometimes they are true and sometimes they are untrue. One can’t control the extent to which truth is being spoken by others. But one can certainly control the extent to which he speaks the truth and how one reacts and perceives the truth or untruth spoken by others.”