Marcus Aurelius
- A Tranquil Escape - Meditations
People try to get away from it all - to county, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too. Which is idiotic - you can get away from it anytime you like. By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful, more free of interruptions, than your own soul. Especially if you have other things to rely on. An instant's recollection and there it is: complete tranquility.
Marcus Aurelius
- Our Inward Power.
Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces, to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp, what's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it, and makes it still burn higher.
