Here are a couple of quotes I’ve pulled from reading I’ve been using to replenish my well. One’s from Buddhism Plain and Simple by Steven Hagen, the other from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
From Hagen:
It is said that if you drop a frog in hot water, he’ll jump out. If you put him in lukewarm water and very slowly raise the temperature, the frog will stay there until he dies.
We’re not frogs. We have the capacity to see and to know when we’re sliding too far into an unhealthy situation. But we have to take note of what we see. We don’t have to continue down a slippery slope. We can stop, turn around, and head in the other direction. But this can only be done when we see our situation for what it is.
From Aurelius:
Remember how long you’ve been putting this off, how many extensions the gods gave you, and you didn’t use them. At some point you have to recognize what world it is that you belong to; what power rules it and from what source you spring; that there is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don’t use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.
These quotes both will be turned into full blogs. But for now they’ll remain quotes. I’m replenishing the well, which, in time, will produce blog posts with a nice mixture of Austrian Economics, Stoicism, Buddhism, and living your life your way.