Today's Meditation(s): Consolation to Marcia , XI. 1, Seneca (Anderson 2015) Tonight is a good night. Tomorrow morning will be a good morning. Tomorrow night will be a good night  (Reserve clause in effect, of course.) Perhaps this might have been quoted another time? (Reserve clause, activated. Got ill at the get together tonight. Home now. Sleep now.)

Today's Meditation(s): Tao Te Ching , 20, Gia-fu Feng and Jane English All these negatives. All these undesirables. The shame of it. The horrifying embarrassment. The loneliness. But thinking makes it so....  But these are externals, indifferents. Unimportant-unless-I-mistakenly-make-them-importants. So, keep my priorities straight and, even if I seem to be missing on some things important to The World, I can still follow Tao.

Today's Meditation(s): Tao Te Ching , 19, Gia-fu Feng and Jane English Again, a list of good things . . . to avoid? But see how the last stanza connects so easily to Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius? See simplicity. Do not add to impressions. Realize our true nature. I am my reasoning faculty. Only my judgments are up to me.  Cast off selfishness. Be cosmopolitan. Be a benefit to society. Think of others. Temper desire. Being rich will not satisfy me no matter how much I have, but wanting less will allow me to remain tranquil no matter my straits.

Today's Meditation(s): Tao Te Ching , 18, Gia-fu Feng and Jane English But aren't these good things? Surely, but they are misused. They distract and mollify and pacify. And leave no room for Tao.