Clearing the Clouds from Your Mind
Marcus Aurelius, and a dream account: 'Clearing the Clouds from Your Mind'
[Image: “Combing Through the Cumulonimbus,” by John E. Simpson. (Photo shared here under a Creative Commons License; for more information, see this page at RAMH.)] From whiskey river: 24 Remember how long you have been putting these things off, and how often you have received an opportunity from the gods and have not made use of it. By now you ought to realize what cosmos you are a part of, and what divine administrator you owe your existence to, and that an end to your time here has been marked out, and if you do not use this time for clearing the clouds from your mind, it will be gone and so will you.
(Marcus Aurelius, translated by Jacob Needleman and John Piazza [source])
I’m going to do something a little different — okay, a lot different — with this week’s whiskey river Fridays post...
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