Those are the only options. Reason for optimism.- Keep always before you that “this is no different from an
empty field,” and the things in it are the same as on a
mountaintop, on the seashore, wherever. Plato gets to the
heart of it: “fencing a sheepfold in the mountains, and milking
goats or sheep.” - My mind. What is it? What am I making of it? What am I
using it for?
Is it empty of thought?Isolated and torn loose from those around it?Melted into flesh and blended with it, so that it shares its
urges?
- When a slave runs away from his master, we call him a
fugitive slave. But the law of nature is a master too, and to
break it is to become a fugitive.
To feel grief, anger or fear is to try to escape from
something decreed by the ruler of all things, now or in the
past or in the future. And that ruler is law, which governs
what happens to each of us. To feel grief or anger or fear is
to become a fugitive—a fugitive from justice.
- He deposits his sperm and leaves. And then a force not