That way you’ll see human life for what it is. Smoke.
Nothing. Especially when you recall that once things alter
they cease to exist through all the endless years to come.
Then why such turmoil? To live your brief life rightly,
isn’t that enough?
The raw material you’re missing, the opportunities...!
What is any of this but training—training for your logos, in
life observed accurately, scientifically.
So keep at it, until it’s fully digested. As a strong stomach
digests whatever it eats. As a blazing fire takes whatever you
throw on it, and makes it light and flame.
- That no one can say truthfully that you are not a
straightforward or honest person. That anyone who thinks
that believes a falsehood. The responsibility is all yours; no
one can stop you from being honest or straightforward.
Simply resolve not to go on living if you aren’t. It would be
contrary to the logos. - Given the material we’re made of, what’s the sanest thing
that we can do or say? Whatever it may be, you can do or say
it. Don’t pretend that anything’s stopping you.
You’ll never stop complaining until you feel the same
pleasure that the hedonist gets from self-indulgence—only