Where is it, this “pearl of great price”?
Where it’s always been—inside the clam.
Likewise, the chalice, suspended from a bough of the great oak in the walled-off garden of the grown-over castle.
“Look inside yourself.”
Tag Archives: stoicism
The therapeutic question
What do you need to stop doing?
Impedimenta
Slowing our development: Pursuit of pleasure, flight from pain.
Stopping our development: Compromise.
Weight gain
Most of what we say and do is not necessary.
Superfluity weighs on us. We become rolled and torpid.
Stoic code
Do not want anything. Do not avoid anything.
Men's Work 