Lagniappe: Memento mori Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us. principal doctrines – No. 2 Nothing is enough to someone for whom what is enough is too little. Vatican Sayings – No. 68 Of all the […]
May each of us be so gifted!
Let us mutually pardon.
The fullness of human life, an admixture of the Stoic and the Epicurean.
Be the person you seek! Deserve your self-love! Compare: ¡Merece lo que sueñas! Octavio Paz
As one’s physical umbilical cord is cut to leave the womb behind, so one must cut one’s mental/emotional umbilical cord to leave the matrix of childhood behind. Compare: Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause […]
To see others as they see themselves. To see yourself as others see you.
Ah, to flâneur one’s way through life!
How to be a wise child: [R]eturn to that naked awareness, that vision unclouded by commentary, which we enjoyed as babies in the days when we saw no difference between knower and known, deed and happening. This time, however, we are babies reborn–babies who remember all the rules and tricks of human games and can […]
The first installment in a recurring series of meditations on human maturation. Become a wise child! Compare: https://www.inspiringquotes.com/inspiration/62d9edfe9964bc0007a038d2
The Gloss 