Meditations
That way you’ll see human life for what it is. Smoke. Nothing. Especially when you recall that once things alter they cease to e ...
from doing what’s proper to human beings as far as circumstances—inherent or fortuitous—allow. “Enjoyment” means doing as much o ...
If you’ve immersed yourself in the principles of truth, the briefest, most random reminder is enough to dispel all fear and pai ...
A healthy pair of eyes should see everything that can be seen and not say, “No! Too bright!” (which is a symptom of ophthalmia) ...
they want me gone, in hopes that it will make their own lives easier. How could anyone stand a longer stay here?” And yet, don’t ...
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Characteristics of the rational soul: Self-perception, self-examination, and the power to make of itself whatever it wants. It ...
years behind him and eyes in his head has seen both past and future—both alike. Also characteristic of the rational soul: Affect ...
But the resolution has to be the result of its own decision, not just in response to outside forces [like the Christians]. It ha ...
Or: And why should we feel anger at the world? And: To harvest life like standing stalks of grain and a good many others. Then, ...
A branch cut away from the branch beside it is simultaneously cut away from the whole tree. So too a human being separated from ...
Because anger, too, is weakness, as much as breaking down and giving up the struggle. Both are deserters: the man who breaks and ...
looking at the truth, without and within. Someone despises me. That’s their problem. Mine: not to do or say anything despicabl ...
in your voice, visible in your eyes, like a lover who looks into your face and takes in the whole story at a glance. A straightf ...
that, even if it brings you no glory. None of us is forbidden to pursue our own good. Source and substance of each thing. What ...
suggestion that they aren’t good neighbors. iv. That you’ve made enough mistakes yourself. You’re just like them. Even if there ...
what else. viii. How much more damage anger and grief do than the things that cause them. ix. That kindness is invincible, provi ...
It’s courtesy and kindness that define a human being— and a man. That’s who possesses strength and nerves and guts, not the angr ...
And the fourth reason for self-reproach: that the more divine part of you has been beaten and subdued by the degraded mortal par ...
Unhelpful, unless you specify a goal. There is no common benchmark for all the things that people think are good—except for a fe ...
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