All Is Well in the Great Mess

Warum sind wir so geizig mit unserem Geld, gehen aber verschwenderisch mit unserer Lebenszeit um? In seinem Traktat „Das Leben ist kurz“ plädiert Seneca für einen verantwortungsvollen Umgang mit der Ressource Zeit. Lesung mit Reinhard Glemnitz ...

“The life we are given isn’t short but we make it so; we’re not ill provided but we are wasteful of life.” -- Seneca ...

“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 ...

"Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions -- not outside." -- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations ...

"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) ...

"Remember that no one loses any other life than this which he is living, nor lives any other than this which he is losing." -- Marcus Aurelius ...

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -- R. Buckminster Fuller ...

“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.” -- Michel de Montaigne ...

“Loss is nothing but change, and change is nature’s delight.” -- Marcus Aurelius ...

“It’s impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows” -- Epictetus ...

"You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone." -- M. Aurelius ...

This site I made solely to please myself. I have in the past burnt much of my creative output in garden bonfires in a quest for simplicity and less baggage, but now it seems putting it on the web will serve a similar purpose. ...