Meditation

• Yes, you can—if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.
• Ignoring what goes on in other people’s souls—no one ever came to grief that way. But if you won’t keep track of what your own soul’s doing, how can you not be unhappy?
• In comparing sins (the way people do) Theophrastus says that the ones committed out of desire are worse than the ones committed out of anger.
  • The angry man is more like a victim of wrongdoing, provoked by pain to anger.
  • The other man rushes into wrongdoing on his own, moved to action by desire.