To want time with someone after they are gone from your life is silly – greediness. You already were gifted time with them. This is all that you need. To want more when the time for something is gone is gluttony. Move on to the next thing when it is time. Don’t go back forContinue reading “On lost love”
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Quote of the day 07/31/23
From Marcus Aurelius: “Not to assume it’s impossible because you find it hard. But to recognize that if it’s humanly possible, you can do it too.”
The Austere Master
A great master lived in a monastery on a mountain. He was widely known for his austerity. When he felt that he was about to die, he asked his best student to come to his side. “My student,” he said. “I feel that I am about to die. In my final moments, I wish toContinue reading “The Austere Master”
Goodness Nature
Animals always act according to their nature. Babies too. Think of the pureness of their actions – of their living. To eat when they are hungry. To sleep when they are tired. But when adults act this way – act without concern for others – we call them immoral. Why? Knowledge of good and evil.Continue reading “Goodness Nature”
Quote of the day 07/30/23
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?”
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.”
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