The core theme is that true peace and freedom come not from seeking control and certainty, but from embracing uncertainty, accepting our human imperfections, and learning to live with the natural flow of life, as exemplified by the wisdom of Michel de Montaigne.
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Have you ever stopped to think about how
much of your anguish comes from your
obsession with control? No, I'm not just
talking about external control, work,
bills, routine, but internal control.
The suffocating need for certainties to
know what will happen tomorrow. To
perfectly understand who you are, what
you want, where you're going. Society
has taught you to seek definitive
answers as if life were a mathematical
equation. But the truth, the truth that
few have the courage to face, is that
this obsession with certainty distances
you from what you desire most, peace.
Perhaps you are tired, exhausted from
trying to predict the
unpredictable, from crafting perfect
plans that crumble at the slightest
breath of
chance. Maybe you are living in the
limbo of anxiety, where every
uncertainty becomes a threat, where the
unknown seems like an enemy to be
defeated. But what if the problem isn't
the uncertainty?
What if the real poison is your refusal
to accept it? Michelle de Montaigne, a
French thinker from the 16th century,
understood this before any of us. While
the world around him sought dogmas,
absolute truths, closed systems, he did
something rare. He looked inward. He
observed his own mind, his fears, his
inconsistencies, and dared to write
about all of it with brutal honesty. Not
as someone who has the answers, but as
someone who learned to live better with
the questions. And that's what you need
now. No more certainties, but a new
relationship with what cannot be
controlled. In this video, I want to
propose a different path, a lighter and
much braver way to face life. I want to
show you through Montaigne's wisdom that
when you stop resisting the unknown,
something changes. Anxiety loses its
grip. Pressures diminish. And for the
first time in a long time, life begins
to seem simpler. But be careful. This
simplicity doesn't come from the
outside. It's not a change in the world.
It's an internal revolution. And it
starts now when you decide to let go. to
abandon the illusion of control and to
walk with me not towards answers but
towards a new way of being in the world.
Are you ready? Because this journey
unlike anything you've been taught
begins with a single phrase. I don't
okay. Monteneg was not an ordinary
philosopher. He did not ascend to
pulpits, create complex systems, or try
to force the world into rational
formulas. He wrote from within his own
skin. Sitting in his library, surrounded
by books and silence, Michelle de
Montaigne decided to investigate the
most unstable and mysterious object that
exists, himself. His texts are not
treatices, they are mirrors. He did not
write to convince you but to invite you
to think to doubt to question to look
within yourself without fear or rather
despite the fear. Unlike other thinkers
who sought universal truths, Montaigne
embraced the opposite. He did not know.
And the more he lived, the more he
realized that knowing little about the
world and even less about himself was
not a flaw. It was a rare wisdom.
Curses, he constantly asked, "What do I
know?" Not as a provocation, but as a
starting point, because admitting
ignorance for him was not an
intellectual failure. It was a
liberation. It was stopping the
pretense, stopping the maintenance of
masks. It was lifting the burden of
having to be someone right, complete, impenetrable.
impenetrable.
The modern world rejects this humility.
We live in a time when one must have an
opinion about everything, a stance on
everything, certainties as sharp as
blades. But Montaigne offers us the
opposite, the chance to be human before
being ideological. He believed that our
fragility, our doubts, our
contradictions are not weaknesses to be
corrected, but essential parts of what
makes us truly alive. And perhaps that
is exactly what you need to hear right
now. That you no longer need to uphold
false certainties to be worthy. That you
don't need to know everything to move
forward. That it's okay to be
incomplete. Montenia allowed himself to
change his mind. He contradicted
himself. He admitted that what he
thought yesterday might not hold true
today. He understood the natural
movement of the human mind which molds,
adapts and transforms. And instead of
fighting against it, he embraced it with
kindness, with irony, with
astonishment. He knew that living is not
about dominating the world with solid
ideas, but about navigating it with an
open mind and an attentive heart. And
that is why Montaigne is so necessary
today. In a time when everyone shouts,
he whispers. In a time of hard
certainties, he teaches the lightness of
doubt. And if you are feeling lost,
crushed by the demands of being someone
stable, defined,
unchangeable. Perhaps what you lack is
not direction, but freedom. The freedom
to change, to not know, to simply be.
But Montaigne does not just invite us to
doubt, he warns us about the price of
fleeing from it. Because the more we try
to control life, the more suffering we
generate. And that is exactly what we
are going to talk about now. The silent
suffering that arises from the desperate
attempt to control the
uncontrollable. If this content is
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You try to control everything, don't
you? Tomorrow, other people's reactions,
your career, your body, your feelings,
even what doesn't depend on you. And the
more you try to hold the res of life,
the more it slips away. It's like trying
to grasp water with your hands. The
tighter you squeeze, the more it flows
away. Have you noticed how much this
costs you? This obsession with control
is not just exhausting, it's toxic. It
turns you into a prisoner of unrealistic
expectations, a permanent inspector of
everything that could go wrong. And this
has a name,
anxiety. Anxiety at its core is the fear
of the unpredictable. It's the
desperation for guarantees in a world
that offers none.
Most people live in this constant state
of alert, trying to anticipate every
curve in the road, as if that could
prevent the accidents of the soul. But
Monta knew something that modern
psychology only confirmed centuries
later. Living in an attempt to predict
the future is to live in a state of war
with reality.
You see, human suffering doesn't come
only from what happens to us. Often, it
comes from our futile struggle against
what happens. It's the desire for life
to be different from what it is. It's
the denial of the natural flow of
things. Montaigne wrote about this with
an almost disconcerting frankness. He
accepted his pains, his losses, his
uncertainties not as something to be
eliminated but as an integral part of
existence. And by doing so, he freed
himself from the burden of resisting
everything. Have you noticed how the
most controlling people are also the
most tense, the most exhausted, the most inflexible?
