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Tao Stoic 4

'Judging from what I hear, I feel that you show great promise. You do not tear from place to place and unsettle yourself with one move after another. Restlessness of that sort is symptomatic of a sick mind. Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.' (Seneca, Lett. 2.3.)

"How well written this is, " said the Master. "It is all about the Way. M.Aurelius Ant. said:

'How easy a thing it is for a man to put off from him all turbulent adventitious imaginations, and presently to be in perfect rest and tranquility!' (Meditations 43 )

You see, it is all in the Mind, and, ... all is easy!"


Ven 2005-01-24