This is All You Have in the Moment: A Transformative Perspective
Refuse to die in low spirits.
"Concentrate every minute like a Roman—like a man—on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes, you can—if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing." — Marcus Aurelius
"Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people, unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful. You'll be too preoccupied with what so and so is doing, and why, and what they're saying, and what they're thinking, and what they're up to, and all the other things that throw you off and keep you from focusing on your own mind." — Marcus Aurelius
Humanity's strength is also its greatest weakness. We're endowed with a high capacity to think and process an unholy amount of information. But through this power, we also increase our chances of indulging useless ideas while deluding ourselves that we’re involved in t…
