Jason Busch

“I found myself within a forest dark, For the straight-forward pathway had been lost.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso, Illustrated）

“setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he pains freedom in the Way. His whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.”
― Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai - Unabridged and Fully Illustrated

“Concentrate every minute like a Roman—like a man—on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes, you can—if you do everything as”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Of all existing things some are in our power, and others are not in our power. In our power are thought, impulse, will to get and will to avoid, and, in a word, everything which is our own doing. Things not in our power include the body, property, reputation, office, and, in a word, everything which is not our own doing. Things in our power are by nature free, unhindered, untrammelled; things not in our power are weak, servile, subject to hindrance, dependent on others.”
― Epictetus, The Enchiridion (Illustrated)