Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Avail yourself often, then, of this retirement, and so continually renew yourself.

He who eats my bread, does my will.

Letting go all else, cling to the following few truths. Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant: all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. This mortal life is a little thing, lived in a little corner of the earth; and little, too, is the longest fame to come - dependent as it is on a succession of fast-perishing little men who have no knowledge even of their own selves, much less of one long dead and gone.

It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.

Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.