Stillness.As the logos of the state requires.- Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it,
because it was within me, in my own perceptions—not
outside. - Known by long experience, limited in life span, debased
in substance—all of it.
Now as then, in the time of those we buried.- Things wait outside us, hover at the door. They keep to
themselves. Ask them who they are and they don’t know, they
can give no account of themselves.
What accounts for them?The mind does.- Not being done to, but doing—the source of good and
bad for rational and political beings. Where their own
goodness and badness is found—not in being done to, but in
doing. - A rock thrown in the air. It loses nothing by coming
down, gained nothing by going up.