Meditations
entombed in the bodies of those nourished by them, and yet there is room for them all—converted into flesh and blood, transforme ...
necessary?” But we need to eliminate unnecessary assumptions as well. To eliminate the unnecessary actions that follow. And the ...
Alien: (n.) one who doesn’t know what the world contains. Or how it operates. Fugitive: (n.) one who evades his obligations to ...
farming, flattering, boasting, distrusting, plotting, hoping others will die, complaining about their own lives, falling in love ...
oblivion covers it. And those are the ones who shone. The rest—“unknown, unasked-for” a minute after death. What is “eternal” fa ...
Look into their minds, at what the wise do and what they don’t. Nothing that goes on in anyone else’s mind can harm you. Nor ca ...
once and already carried past us, and another follows and is gone. Everything that happens is as simple and familiar as the ros ...
Suppose that a god announced that you were going to die tomorrow “or the day after.” Unless you were a complete coward you woul ...
it upwithout complaint. Like an olive that ripens and falls. Praising its mother, thanking the tree it grew on. To be like the ...
A trite but effective tactic against the fear of death: think of the list of people who had to be pried away from life. What di ...
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At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to com ...
below your quota. You don’t love yourself enough. Or you’d love your nature too, and what it demands of you. People who love wha ...
I walk through what is natural, until the time comes to sink down and rest. To entrust my last breath to the source of my daily ...
Some people, when they do someone a favor, are always looking for a chance to call it in. And some aren’t, but they’re still aw ...
Prayer of the Athenians: Zeus, rain down, rain down On the land and fields of Athens. Either no prayers at all—or one as strai ...
case, let’s accept it—as we accept what the doctor prescribes. It may not always be pleasant, but we embrace it —because we want ...
behaving like a human—however imperfectly—and fully embrace the pursuit that you’ve embarked on. And not to think of philosophy ...
putting up with yourself. In such deep darkness, such a sewer —in the flux of material, of time, of motion and things moved —I d ...
you understood “goods” as meaning those, you wouldn’t be able to follow that line about “so many goods... .” It wouldn’t make an ...
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