Caison Britt’s Reviews > Meditations > Status Update

“If you don’t have a consistent goal in life, you can’t live it in a consistent way.”

“To stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.”

“Indifference to external events. And a commitment to justice in your own acts. Which means: thought and action resulting in the common good. What you were born to do.”

“External things are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now. If the problem is something in your own character, who’s stopping you from setting your mind straight? And if it’s that you’re not doing something you think you should be, why not just do it?”

“It’s quite possible to be a good man without anyone realizing it. Remember that. And this too: you don’t need much to live happily. And just because you’ve abandoned your hopes of becoming a great thinker or scientist, don’t give up on attaining freedom, achieving humility, serving others, obeying God.”

Meditations 6.52
“You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you. Things can’t shape our decisions by themselves.”

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