The Beacon in the Sky

Insights for Balanced Lifestyles
  • The Meditations – Marcus Aurelius

    “Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man – yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.” – Marcus Aurelius […]

  • Light and Shadow

    All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow. – Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

  • Life

    If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. – Lao Tzu

  • Joy and Sorrow

    The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. – Khalil Gibran

  • Compassion

    A bit of fragrance Always clings to the hand That gives you the flower – Chinese proverb

  • Hourglass

    The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. – Jean Paul

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An Idea about Seneca

Seneca

Let the man who enters our house admire us rather than our furnishings. – Seneca

His Life wisdom does make sense to me. It is just amazing how he perceived the objects in a clear state of mind. He embraced the Epicures perspective, even if he were the strict Stoics. I, especially, like his view for the acknowledgement of pleasure, based on self-interest; people called friendship for their convenience. Seneca is definitely worthwhile reading.
Great start!

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A couple

IMG_1213_Fotor a couple

I really appreciate the fact that I have learned family therapy just to resolve unstoppable my parents’ arguments. I saw a tiger’s passive aggressive and a beaver’s warrior heart. After a two-hour brutal close combat of pushing one another’s button, they just left for grocery shopping by grabbing each other’s hands. They disappeared with showing their affectionate small hug on the screen… with the peace.

But, I know… the war was not over….