My Machine Often Wants...

My machine often wants people 

or circumstances to be different than they are. 

When this happens I start imagining things, 

or go into self-pity, 

so I become under more laws. 

So I remember Epictetus's quote 

not to wish for things to be different than they are, 

but to wish for things to be as they are. 

Then it becomes possible for me to be present.

~J

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