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Snippets from the Handbook 6

Therefore let your will to avoid have no concern with what is not in man's power; direct it only to things in man's power that are contrary to nature. 
But for the moment you must utterly remove the will to get; for if you will to get something not in man's power you are bound to be unfortunate; while none of the things in man's power that you could honorably will to ...

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Jottings on Marcus 8

Through not observing what is in the mind of another a man has seldom been seen to be unhappy; but those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy. 
—from Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2.8
For so many years, I couldn't get any sleep, because I was always worried about what she might be thinking.
It only b...

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Owls 22

IMAGE by Ray Brown 

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Seneca, Moral Letters 87.10

“That which, while we are desiring to attain it, involves us in many evils, is not a good. But while we are desiring to attain riches, we become involved in many evils; therefore, riches are not a good,” 
 
“Your first premise,” they say, “contains two meanings; one is: we become involved in many evils while we are desiring to attain riche...

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All Nature Has a Feeling

"All Nature Has a Feeling" 
John Clare (1793-1864) 
All nature has a feeling: woods, fields, brooks
Are life eternal: and in silence they

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