my place to free my mind

[stoicbreviary]

“Death weighs on him who is known to all, but dies unknown to himself.”

— Seneca, Thyestes (via philosophybits)

[lilith-nocturna]

I go towards my higher self by drinking the drips of your bleeding sun,  I lift my hands high and let the black blood of rex mortis fill the chalice. 

[stoicbreviary]

“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich; for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.”

— Epictetus (via craigtowens)

[stoicbreviary]

Musonius Rufus, Lectures 11.8

What is there to prevent a student while he is working from listening to a teacher speaking about self-control or justice or endurance? ...

“Manual labor is not a detriment to the life of the mind, but it can rather become a means for greater virtue. You could sell a stock to some rich sucker and say you have succeeded, or you could carve a spoon from wood and have something to help you eat your soup. At least you were honest when it came to the spoon.”

[stoicbreviary]

“Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”

— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching ch.67 (via terracemuse)

[philosophybits]

“Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What’s closer to nature’s heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can’t you see? It’s just the same with you — and just as vital to nature.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (7.18)

[radness2020]

Lemmy Kilmister ~ Motorhead

Quote of the Day: June 30, 2020

"I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it." ~ Lemmy Kilmister

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“The beautiful and good person neither fights with anyone nor, as much as they are able, permits others to fight . . . this is the meaning of getting an education—learning what is your own affair and what is not. If a person carries themselves so, where is there any room for fighting?” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.5.1; 7b–8a

[alctim]

Kall aska ondbrådd död!

Följ med över till andra sidan sjön.

Se skeppet sjunka

Livet förgås till ingenting

Svärdet i strupen

Mänskligheten brinner, världen skall förgås

Låt skräcken slå i dig

Du kommer dö

Bli ett med allfadern

Eviga mörkret nu kommer vi

I evig eld brinner vi, i kall aska vi förgås!

Brinner sakta upp, dödens mysteri nu omfamnnar dig

Du kommer dö, ett plågsamt slut

Fader ta mig hem!

Din tid är kommen!

[scriptedmink]

How many times do you knead the dough of a sweetheart before you reach the consistency of cynicism?

One time too many

[the-stoic-goat]

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“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 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.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“ There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.” — Seneca

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“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.” ― Epictetus

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