“Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before this moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus, and live it as nature directs.”
-Marcus Aurelius, Book Seven, Meditations
Throw away expectations, for what is owed to you, for what you’ve lost, for what you take for granted. Your life is best lived as the bonus track to a concept album of your design. You already had a great run in another life, and you’ve been resurrected for your magnum opus.
This is not a site for feel-good jargon [for its own sake]. It is not a lesson in spirituality. It is a practical guide for achieving perspective, the lack of which I believe is one of the greatest weaknesses in our interpersonal relationships.
This site is meant to pull together practical ideas for developing a system within which