“You always have the option of having no opinion about a thing, and not to be disturbed in your soul; for things themselves have no natural power to form our judgments.” - Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations, 6.52 Closing in on...
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” - Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations, 7.47 Above all else, working on Meditations has brought one fact into sharp focus for me: modern civilization has us...
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds, and until we know what has been or will be the peculiar combination of outward with inward facts, which constitutes a man’s critical actions, it will be better not...
“Consider how quickly all things are dissolved and disappear: the bodies and substances themselves, into the matter and substance of the world: and their memories into the general age and time of the world. Consider the nature of all worldly...
“I am no bird, and no net ensnares me.” - Charlotte Brontë As a kid, I remember reading an old newpaper comic strip that had an image of a family at a “Fred Estaire Film Festival.” The mom was looking...
“Remember that the governing self becomes invincible when it withdraws into itself and is satisfied with itself, doing nothing which it does not will to do, even if its opposition is unreasonable. How much more then when it decides both with...
