Saturday, May 25, 2024

Peculiar property of Man!

 Peculiar property of Man! 

Seneca

Letters from a Stoic


The general madness of mankind 

To chase stuff 

Pushes one another into vices 

Say you have beautiful horse , big farm , large income

Most of it is not in man himself

They are outside

They can be taken away -snatched away - by Fortune

So they are not the peculiar properties of man

These are not his own! 

The quest and ambition for acquisition of objects

Have wrested from our hands -and costs us

Anxiety design and Honor, Treason and Time

That is the payment we need to make for our craving! 


So what should we praise? 

That which is his own - the soul and its reason

Brought to the perfection of the soul


What we need to do is : spend your very self! 

To reflect , reason, restrain , respond and rest! 

Ownership of not the stuff ! but the Self!


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