senses deal with it. Are there obstacles to your action? If you
failed to reckon with the possibility, then that would harm
you, as a rational being. But if you use common sense, you
haven’t been harmed or even obstructed. No one can obstruct
the operations of the mind. Nothing can get at them—not fire
or steel, not tyrants, not abuse—nothing. As long as it’s “a
sphere... in perfect stillness.”
- I have no right to do myself an injury. Have I ever injured
anyone else if I could avoid it? - People find pleasure in different ways. I find it in
keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or
the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming
everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves. - Give yourself a gift: the present moment.
People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations
To Come will be the same annoying people they know now.
And just as mortal. What does it matter to you if they say x
about you, or think y?
- Lift me up and hurl me. Wherever you will. My spirit
will be gracious to me there—gracious and satisfied—as
long as its existence and actions match its nature.
Is there any reason why my soul should suffer and be