I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions, that they exist only in the present, which is what there is and all that there is.


“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
― Meditations
― Meditations

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
― Meditations
― Meditations

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Meditations
― Meditations

“How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.”
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“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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