Status Updates From Meditations

“Re-member, nothing belongs to you but your flesh and blood and nothing else is under your control.” (book 5.33)

“Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone those that are now, and those to come.” (book 5.23)

“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.” (book 5.16)

“No one could ever accuse you of being quick-witted.” HAHAH (book 5.5)

“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: "I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I'm going to do what I was born forthe things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?"” (book 5.1)

“Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness, and all the other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself?” (book 4.49)

“Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you. Nor can the shifts and changes in the world around you. -Then where is harm to be found? In your capacity to see it.” (book 4.39)

“Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the presentthoughtfully, justly.” (book 4.26)

“You have a mind? Yes. Well, why not use it? Isn't that all you want—for it to do its job?” (book 4.13)

“It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character.” (book 4.8)

“Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.” (book 4.7)

“Each of us lives only now, this brief instant.
The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.” (book 3.10)

“Never regard something as doing you good if it makes you betray a trust, or lose your sense of shame, or makes you show hatred, suspicion, ill will, or hypocrisy, or a desire for things best done behind closed doors.” (book 3.7)

“Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people-unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful. You'll be too preoccupied with what so-and-so is doing, and why, and what they're saying, and what they're thinking, and what they're up to, and all the other things that throw you off and keep you from focusing on your own mind.” (book 3.4)

“So we need to hurry.
Not just because we move daily closer to death but also because our understandingour grasp of the world may be gone before we get there.” (book 3.1)

“you cannot lose another life than the one you're living now, or live another one than the one you're losing… For you can't lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don't have?” (book 2.14)

“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” (book 2.11)

“…make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions.” (book 2.7)

“Everyone gets one life.” (book 2.6)

“To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are obstructions.” (book 2.1)

Reading “what sort of soul do you have after all” stoned by the camp fire at noon🧙‍♂️