Aurelius - Meditations 4:1

4:1 – The ruling power within, when it is in accordance with nature, so confronts what comes to pass as always to adapt itself readily to that which is and that which is presented to it. This is because it requires no definite material; rather it moves towards its purpose with a reservation, and then makes the opposition which encounters it into material for itself. It is like a fire, when it masters what falls into it: whereby a little flame would have been put out, but a bright fire very quickly appropriates to itself the matter which is heaped on it, and consumes it, and rises higher by means of this very material.
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Stoic texts:
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Letters from a Stoic Master (Seneca)
The Discourses of Epictetus
The Enchiridion (Handbook) of Epictetus
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