Meditations

"The things you think about determine the quality of your mind."

"Know yourself."

"You are not obliged to complete the work. But neither are you free to abandon it."

"The universe is a single living organism, made of one substance and one soul."

"Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter."

"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets."

"Refuse to be ashamed of needing help."

"You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think."

"Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear."

"External things are not the problem. It is your judgement about them. And you can erase that now."

"Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?"

"You see how few things you need to grasp to live happily and nobly."

"Today I escaped anxiety about tomorrow, or at least, I escaped it by false judgment about my duties."

"Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that the task is beyond the powers of man."

"The impediment to action becomes the action."

"Remember that you will die."

"How much trouble he avoids who does not look at what his neighbor says or does or thinks."

"The most powerful thing you can do is to take control of your own perception."

"It is not things themselves that disturb people, but their judgments about those things."

"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and querulous."

"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

"Patience is the remedy for every misfortune."

"Objective judgment, now, at this very moment."

"Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought."

"Everything is only for a day, both the one who remembers and the one who is remembered."

"The greatest wealth is a poverty of wants."

"Forgive them freely and openly."

"Do not wish to be unassailable from attack. Wish rather that you are not inclined to attack anyone."

"Often injustice lies in what you aren't doing, not only in what you are doing."

"Accept the things to which fate binds you and love the people with all your heart."