All Is Well in the Great Mess

"That which I have said is only like the few leaves in my hand. And that which I have not said is like the dry leaves in this forest."

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-Reliance

This text was first published in Emerson’s Essays collection in 1841. Emerson drew on his journals of 1832-40 for a number of ideas and passages he wrote here. Over the years, he delivered the text as speeches and lectures, so it evolved over time. "Ne te quæsiveris extra." "Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shad...
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"External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now." -- Marcus Aurelius ...
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"We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers." -- Seneca ...
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"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." -- R.W. Emerson, Self-Reliance ...
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"Only time can heal what reason cannot." -- Seneca ...
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"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." -- Aristotle ...
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"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality." -- Seneca ...
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"A rock thrown in the air. It loses nothing by coming down, gained nothing by going up." -- Marcus Aurelius ...
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"My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes; most of which never happened." -- Michel de Montaigne ...
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Marc Aurel: Selbstbetrachtungen (Reclam Hörbuch)

Die Selbstbetrachtungen von Marc Aurel sind als kostenloses Reclam Hörbuch auf YouTube verfügbar. Gelesen von Winfried Frey. ...
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“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.” -- Seneca ...
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Senecas unvergängliche Lebensweisheit

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 ...
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“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 ...
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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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"Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions -- not outside." -- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations ...
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"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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"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 ...
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"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 ...
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“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.” -- Michel de Montaigne ...
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“Loss is nothing but change, and change is nature’s delight.” -- Marcus Aurelius ...
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“It’s impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows” -- Epictetus ...
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"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 ...
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Welcome

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. ...
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