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Born into slavery in Hierapolis, now modern Turkey around 50 AD Epictetus spent his early years as the property of a man named Epaphroditus a powerful freed man in the court of Nero.
Epictetus had no legal rights, no freedom of movement and no control over the conditions of his daily life.
Just think about that for a moment.
Life is literally not your own on any level.
The man even once had his leg broken deliberately to apparently demonstrate that his master could do it.
For crying out loud.
Like some dark theatrical display to onlookers looking for entertainment that Epaphroditus had remarkable power over his domain.
Ego plus here.
Now here’s the remarkable thing:
Epictetus reportedly observed this calmly and noted that the leg would break.
What the heck?!
Who could do this, right?
Well, when his leg did break, he simply remarked that he had said so.
This is incredibly hard to wrap the mind around because the excruciating pain must have been immense, not to mention the man’s awareness prior, as the attack on the leg was underway, that the word ‘pain’ would be an understatement to describe the outcome of his masters twisted act.
Was he terrified, shaking with fear from what was about to happen? Likely he was, but he had mastery over his response like no tomorrow.
Why, how?
Because the broken leg didn’t equate to a broken man.
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