Marcus Aurelius, Redacted
Letting go, cling.
Remember this fleeting
instant gone, or revealed.
This mortal little thing
lived in a corner; and little,
too, is the longest dependent
succession of fast-perishing
selves, much less, long dead.
The source: Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book III, section 10
Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come—dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.
michael jarmer 