GREATEST EQUALLIZER

For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
--Marcus Aurelius

NEUROSIS

"...Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis.Our brilliance, our juiceness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness and our confusion, and therefore it doesn't do any good to try to get rid of our so-called negative aspects,because in the process we also get rid of our basic wonderfulness"--Pema chodron