Apr 11, 2010
A little Flesh, A little Breath, And A Reason to Rule All – That is Myself
Its been awhile since I really wrote anything. Its been a tough period of time but thankfully everything is looking up now. I’ve spent the last few weeks swimming in work, and getting some social media detox. Hiding from the world if you might say so. Because I lost interest in so many things, I figured its time to pick myself up.
And I’ve been reading… That, and bashing my way through Professor Layton’s 300 puzzles.
I’m currently hooked to The Meditations of Roman philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius as the blog title aptly quotes. I’m extremely glad I bought his book. Here’s a current favourite paragraph which I believe everyone will benefit from. What a great way to start a day, a month, a life.
Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil. But for my part I have long perceived the nature of good and its nobility, the nature of evil and its meanness, and also the nature of the culprit himself, who is my brother (not in the physical sense, but as a fellow-creature similarly endowed with reason and a share of the divine); therefore none of those things can injure me, for nobody can implicate me in what is degrading. Neither can I be angry with my brother or fall foul of him; for he and I were born to work together, like a man’s two hands, feet, or eyelids, or like the upper and lower rows of his teeth, To obstruct each other is against Nature’s law – and what is irritation or aversion but a form of obstruction?
Now, here’s something for everyone to chew on. Easier said than done. But don’t every of us love some kind of challenge?
