Meditations
The stench of decay. Rotting meat in a bag. Look at it clearly. If you can. “To the best of my judgment, when I look at the h ...
senses deal with it. Are there obstacles to your action? If you failed to reckon with the possibility, then that would harm you, ...
degraded—miserable, tense, huddled, frightened? How could there be? What humans experience is part of human experience. The exp ...
embracing the obstacles too. Remember that when it withdraws into itself and finds contentment there, the mind is invulnerable. ...
the world will laugh at you, just as a carpenter would if you seemed shocked at finding sawdust in his workshop, or a shoemaker ...
How? By working to win your freedom. Hour by hour. Through patience, honesty, humility. Not to know what the world is is to be ...
person is harmed by it—and he can stop being harmed as soon as he decides to. Other people’s wills are as independent of mine a ...
Fear of death is fear of what we may experience. Nothing at all, or something quite new. But if we experience nothing, we can e ...
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Injustice is a kind of blasphemy. Nature designed rational beings for each other’s sake: to help—not harm—one another, as they ...
to find himself constantly reproaching nature—complaining that it doesn’t treat the good and bad as they deserve, but often lets ...
enough. Or are you determined to lie down with evil? Hasn’t experience even taught you that—to avoid it like the plague? Because ...
meaningless to those you leave behind. Because that’s all that could restrain us (if anything could)—the only thing that could m ...
All things are drawn toward what is like them, if such a thing exists. All earthly things feel the earth’s tug. All wet things ...
however much they try to avoid it, there’s no escaping. Nature is stronger. As you can see if you look closely. Concrete objects ...
Stillness. As the logos of the state requires. Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, i ...
Enter their minds, and you’ll find the judges you’re so afraid of—and how judiciously they judge themselves. Everything in flux ...
Your neighbor’s—to distinguish ignorance from calculation. And recognize it as like yours. You participate in a society by your ...
The world’s cycles never change—up and down, from age to age. Either the world’s intelligence wills each thing (if so, accept ...
with even the smallest progress, and treat the outcome of it all as unimportant. Who can change their minds? And without that ch ...
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