Meditations VIII.28

Pain is an evil either to the body—let the body then denounce it²⁵—or to the Soul; but the Soul can ensure her own fair weather and her own calm sea,²⁶ and refuse to account it an evil. For every conviction and impulse and desire and aversion is from within,²⁷ and nothing climbs in thither.

• 25.See vii. 33.
• 26.See xii. 22.
• 27.v. 19; St. Matthew xv. 18.

  Matthew 15:18 has “those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart” (King James).