Terminal

Without exception, we are all dying, and it is this fact that imbues life with its ineffable sweetness.

“It is not possible to live well today unless you treat it as your last.”

Know thyself

If I do not know who I am, I’ll be exploited by rascals.

Bind it on your arm

The code: Do not pursue pleasure. Do not avoid pain. Welcome what comes.

Neighbours

When his son died, Emerson looked hard at grief. He later recalled it as a shallow emotion, depthless and unreal. No stoic lives far from the fact that we are born to die.

Obstacles

Obstacles are not for fighting against. They are for observing, examining, inquiring into.

Marcus Aurelius: “What stands in the way becomes the way.”