Beware of Apperance and impressions
pg.30 : Meditations : Marcus AureliusWhen you have meat on the plate, the impression, that it is enticing,
tell yourself
this is nothing but a dead body of fish or bird or cow
This wine is just a little rotten grape juice
This purple robe - sheep's wool dyed with the blood of shell-fish
Such then are the impressions! (in yoga philosophy - its called Vrttis)
so beware
when things appear most worthy of our approbation
we ought to lay them bare and
look at their worthlessness
and strip them of all the words by which they are exalted
For the outward show is a wonderful perverter of reason
and when you are most sure that you are employed
about things worth your pains
It is then that it cheats the most!
Authors
Marcus Aurelius
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