Maya Fremon
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Maya Fremon
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
Marcus Aurelius • Meditations
Rootedness is a state of being to envelop yourself in. It is a way to become you. Again. Always. So, root yourself. Become.
Pedro Tofua • Returning to Center: Passages for Reconnecting with the Spirit, Changing the World, and Becoming Who You're Meant to Be
Marcus Aurelius wrote, “Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”
How to Simplify Your Daily Schedule with Stoic Philosophy
One without a myth “is like one uprooted, having no true link either with the past, or with the ancestral life which continues within him, or yet with contemporary human society.”
C. G. Jung • The Red Book
Vincent Van Gogh on the accumulation of small things:
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The trick is to focus on the first small thing. Starting small is still starting, and small beginnings often lead to extraordinary endings.”
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The trick is to focus on the first small thing. Starting small is still starting, and small beginnings often lead to extraordinary endings.”
“Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense.” Marcus Aurelius
"There are two ways to make the world more mesmerizing: to seek out new and increasingly intense experiences, or to loosen the filters that make ordinary experience “ordinary”. You can go skydiving, or you can meditate for long enough that walking feels like skydiving. Either way, I think what we’re seeking is an escape back into what we used to... See more
We can say, to put it briefly, that up to the present mankind has known two principal forms of oppression, the one (slavery or serfdom) exercised in the name of armed force, the other in the name of wealth thus transformed into capital; what we have to determine is whether these are not now being succeeded by a new species of oppression, oppression
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