Words from Marcus Aurelius....
"Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or
thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one you
have, and there will be no other life after it. So the longest and the
shortest lives are the same.
For this present moment is shared by all living creatures, but the time
that is past is gone forever. No one can lose the past or the future,
for if they don't belong to you, how can they be taken from you?
Remember, that which, governs is the thing, which is hidden within.
This is the power of persuasion, this is life, this, if one
may so say, is man. In contemplating thyself never include
the vessel which surrounds thee and these instruments
which are attached about it.
If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that
disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it. And it is in thy power
to eliminate this judgment now.
For the present moment is the only thing you can take from anyone,
since this is all they really own. No one can lose what they do not
own."
~Marcus Aurelius
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