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Remember that you should behave in life as you do at a banquet. Something is being passed around and arrives in front of you: reach out your hand and take your share politely. It passes: don’t try to hold it back. It has yet to reach you: don’t project your desire towards it, but wait until it arrives in front of you. So act likewise with regard to
... See moreEpictetus • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics)
思い起せ、君はどれほど前からこれらのことを延期しているか、またいくたび神々から機会を与えて頂いておきながらこれを利用しなかったか。
神谷 美恵子 • マルクス・アウレーリウス 自省録
What then is worth being valued? The audience clapping? No. Nor the clapping of tongues in the form of praise.
Del Ray Kochon • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius: the New Translation
In Japanese culture, the discomfort of silence is not only acknowledged but embraced through the concept of ma.
Ma refers to the spaces between—between sounds, between actions, between words. It’s the pause between breaths in conversation, the silence between notes in music, the stillness that gives meaning to movement. Yet Ma isn’t interpreted as... See more
Ma refers to the spaces between—between sounds, between actions, between words. It’s the pause between breaths in conversation, the silence between notes in music, the stillness that gives meaning to movement. Yet Ma isn’t interpreted as... See more
