"Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions -- not outside."
-- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
More from All Is Well in the Great Mess
"Without going out-of-doors,
one may know all under heaven;
Without peering through windows,
one may know the Way of heaven.
The farther one goes,
The less one knows.
For this reason,
The sage
knows without journeying,
understands without looking,
accomplishes without acting."
-- Victor H. Mair (Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching)
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“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.”
-- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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