“For as Plato says [in Republic, 361A], ‘it is the height of dishonesty to seem to be honest when one is not'”
—Plutarch, Moralia – How to Tell a Flatterer From a Friend
Today’s Quote: Plutarch/Plato
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Today’s Quote: Diogenes Laertius
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“Through watching a mouse running about, says Theophrastus in the Megarian dialogue, not looking for a place to lie down in, not afraid of the dark, not seeking any of the things which are considered to be dainties, he discovered the means of adapting himself to circumstances.”
— Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, Diogenes of Sinope
Today’s Quote: Chödrön
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“True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.”
— Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are, pg. xi
Today’s Quote: Rumi
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“If you are irritated by every rub,
how will your mirror be polished?”
— Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, Mathnawi I, 2980
Today’s Quote: Seneca
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“Although in other matters there are great distinctions of rank and birth, virtue is accessible to all; she deems no man unworthy if only he deems himself worthy of her.”
— Seneca, De Consolatione ad Polybium, XVII.2
Today’s Quote: Seneca
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“But the wise man is fortified against all inroads; he is alert; he will not retreat before the attack of poverty, or of sorrow, or of disgrace, or of pain. He will walk undaunted both against them and among them.”
— Seneca, Epistle LIX.8 – On Pleasure and Joy
Tanka: at The Getty Villa
When cleaning house recently, I came across a paper on which I’d written three Tanka poems during a visit to the Getty Villa. It would seem, however, that I never actually published them—so here you are:
journey, not destination 