In this we see their kinship with the Cynics, who claimed that all external events were unimportant.

在这一点上， 我们看到了他们与犬儒学派的亲缘关系， 犬儒学派声称所有外部事件都不重要。

Yet external events—from the slaughter of much of the Gregoros family to the Armenian genocide—sometimes force it centre-stage.

然而，外部事件——从对格雷戈罗斯家族大部分成员的屠杀到亚美尼亚种族灭绝——有时会迫使它成为中心舞台。

In the words of Epictetus: " external events I cnnnot control, but the choices I make with regard to them, I do control" .

" 外部事件我无法控制，但我对它们所做的选择，我可以控制" 。

There is no need to investigate the unconscious past in you except as it manifests at this moment as a thought, an emotion, a desire, a reaction, or an external event that happens to you.

没有必要调查你潜意识的过去，除非它在此刻表现为一种思想、一种情绪、一种欲望、一种反应，或者发生在你身上的外部事件。

When we're led by our ego, our main priority is to maintain the status of the eye in the world, and we're just focused on how external events affect us, and everything is very superficial and surface level.

当我们被自我意识引导时，我们的首要任务是关注自己在世上的地位，我们只关注外部事件如何影响我们，一切都非常肤浅。