And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

Each day provides its own gifts.

How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this?

Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes