Tuesday, April 23, 2019

“Only the educated are free.” - Epictetus

From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,” by Arnold Kunst
23 April

Today is a most important day. I've got things that need doing – praying, relaxing, playing, prioritizing, executing, burying, dreaming, strategizing, harnessing otherwise errant power - that are earmarked for THIS day and no other. Doing those things yesterday would be as foolish as taking the cookies out of the oven early [and drinking them] because I'm hungry; doing them tomorrow is looking for the immediately vital in what has already turned putrid/gone to seed. Viewed from this perspective, "tomorrow" is nothing but a jumped-up promissory note.


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