From Marcus Aurelius: “Don’t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and need a comrade to pull you up? So what?”
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Quote of the day 07/29/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “The world as a living being – one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind. And how everything feeds into that single experience, moves with a single motion. And how everything helps produce everything else. Spun and woven together “
Quote of the day 07/28/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “Take the shortest route, the one that nature planned – to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculation and pretension.”
Quote of the day 07/27/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “Fix your eyes on what you have to do. Remember, you must be a good human being. Do what nature demands of you without hesitation. Speak what is just as you see it, but do so with courtesy, modesty, and sincerity.”
Quote of the day 07/26/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “We should remember that even Nature’s inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. The way loaves of bread split open on top in the oven; the ridges are just by-products of the baking, and yet pleasing, somehow: they rouse our appetite without our knowing why. Or how ripe figs begin toContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/26/23”
Quote of the day – 07/25/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “You could leave right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”
Sad Machines
I’ve been thinking lately about the continuousness of history. We often think of time as trending toward the positive, extending ever upward with progress, and differentiating us from people of the past. However, if we think of time without progress, as just a continuation of events, it reveals something of the similarity between ourselves andContinue reading “Sad Machines”
Quote of the day 07/24/23
Julian, often called Julien the Apostate for his rejection of Christianity, was Roman emperor from 361 to 363 AD. He was a scholarly youth, educated in the Hellenistic tradition, and would go on to lead a successful campaign against Persia. These were his final words, after being mortally wounded at the Battle of Samarra. “MostContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/24/23”
Quote of the day 07/23/23
From Lucretius: “Trees don’t live in the sky, and clouds don’t swimIn the salt seas, and fish don’t leap in wheatfields,Blood isn’t found in wood, nor sap in rocks.By fixed arrangement, all that live and growsSubmits to limit and restrictions.”
Country Road
I was walking down a country road When I saw a fallen tree Perfect, I thought to myself No better place for it to be
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