Every day you should put the ideas in action that protect against attachment to externals such as individual people, places or institutions - even your own body. Remember the law of God and keep it constantly in view: look to your own means, leave everything that isn't yours alone.If by "leave everything that isn't yours alone" Epictetus suggests we should bring less than attentive devotion to the externals around us, he contradicts his earlier statements.
And the detachment he sets as a standard here sounds so unlikely.
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