\u00e2\u20ac\u02dclife is short; art long.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n
dont grieve<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n
we are given a long life; but we waste a lot of us!<\/p>\n
we have enough life and time to do the greatest things; if i invest all of my time and life well<\/p>\n
don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t squander my life through soft and careless living<\/p>\n
what worthwhile pursuit will i pursue in my life?<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n
map out my life well; my lifetime will have ample scope!<\/p>\n
if i know how to use my life; it is long.<\/p>\n
avoid voracious avarice or luxury.<\/p>\n
avoid pointless enterprises.<\/strong><\/p>\n don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be slack with idleness; never stop honorable industry and hustling.<\/p>\n avoid ambition that hangs on the judgement of others.<\/p>\n don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t voluntarily enslave myself.<\/p>\n never complain about my own wealth.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n what is my CONSISTENT goal in life?<\/p>\n don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be fickle in life; settle my purpose and stay satisfied<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcscant is the part of life in which we live\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n Existence is not living, but merely time.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n find full relaxation from my desires.<\/p>\n wealth is a burden.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcno one acts as his own champion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n CHAMPION; fighter<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t waste my life for the sake of others!<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n dark fog in the human mind; don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let anyone trespass on my existence or life!<\/p>\n don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t invite others to take possession of my life.<\/p>\n we are stingy with money; why are we too generous with time?<\/p>\n Be generous with money; but be stingy with time.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n the commodity of time: it is respectable to be greedy with time.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthe limit of human life \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 95?<\/p>\n submit my life to an audit.<\/p>\n don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let time taken up by patron, client, arguing with wife, running around with social duties.<\/p>\n how much of my time was wasted idle?<\/p>\n never stop hustling!!!<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n am i sure of my purpose in life?<\/p>\n let my mind be free from disturbance.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcyou\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re dying before your time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t live like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to live forever.<\/p>\n human frailty \u00e2\u20ac\u201d we can still die from car accident.<\/p>\n today might be my last; why waste time to do 1:1 if today might be my last, and i already have enough money.<\/p>\n \n you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re like ordinary mortals in fearing everything, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re like immortals in coveting everything.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n what guarantee do you have that your life will last longer?<\/p>\n happiest day; lie aside my greatness and have leisure.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n the scale of hidden anxieties from wealth?<\/p>\n I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not half-free; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m 100% free!<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n the sage will always enjoy complete and unalloyed liberty!<\/p>\n pure, unalloyed (not made into an alloy) of FREEDOM!<\/p>\n not subject to any constraints in life; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m my own master, and i will tower over others!!!<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n if i rise above fortune, i am 100% free<\/p>\n don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t waste time looking at my bank account balance or finances!<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclearning how to live takes a whole lifetime\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcit takes a whole lifetime to learn how to die\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n set aside all my annoyances, business, encumbrances, pleasure\u00e2\u20ac\u201d and still make it my sole aim at the end of my life to know how<\/em> to live!!!<\/p>\n \n it is the mark of a great man, one rising above human weakness, to allow no part of his time to be skimmed off.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let anyone skim off my life\u00e2\u20ac\u201d like fat on the milk!<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsuch a persons life is extremely long because he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kept available for himself the whole of whatever amount of time he had\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n only keep time for myself; be greedy.<\/p>\n All of my time is cultivated; none of my time is left fallow and uncultivated.<\/p>\n invest my time, plant my time, make crops grow.<\/p>\n \n i need to be a careful guardian of my time; there is nothing worth exchanging my time for!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n be conscious of all the life and time I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve already lost!<\/p>\n people leave me only the worthless time for myself<\/p>\n devote every second of my time to my own needs; organize each day like it were a complete life!<\/strong><\/p>\n be greedy with my own needs; organize my entire life like it were a whole life.<\/p>\n I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve already experienced and enjoyed all pleasures.<\/p>\n i can add to my life, but nothing can take away with my life.<\/p>\n addition in life; like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m satisfied with a meal, and full, and take a little more food i don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t crave, yet i have room for it.<\/p>\n extra time in life; like dessert.<\/p>\n gray hair and wrinkles; not lived long, but long existed.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n See my time ticking down.<\/p>\n don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be busy, preoccupied with my efforts to live better (for the future).<\/p>\n \n They plan out their lives at the expense of life itself.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t waste my life, planning out the rest of my life.<\/p>\n \n They form their purposes with the distant future in mind.<\/p>\n The greatest waste of life lies in postponement; it robs us of each day in turn, and snatches away the present by promising the future.<\/p>\n The greatest impediment to living is expectancy, which relies on tomorrow and wastes today.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect to live longer in life\u00e2\u20ac\u201d therefore I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t waste today.<\/p>\n Put no faith in tomorrow.<\/strong><\/p>\n \n You map out what is in fortune\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hand but let slip what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in your own hand.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let my time slip from my own hand. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t try to plan or map out what is in fortune\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hand \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I might die.<\/p>\n \n What are you aiming at? What is your goal?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n All that is to come lies in uncertainty: LIVE RIGHT NOW<\/strong><\/p>\n Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hold back in life (publish all once, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait to feed-drip):<\/p>\n \n Why are you holding back? Why are you slow to action? If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seize the day, it slips away.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n SEIZE TODAY<\/p>\n Even if you seize today, it will slip away.<\/p>\n \n Compete with time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quickness in the speed in which you use it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Speed up my hustle in life, to compete with the quickness of time \u00e2\u20ac\u201d drink from time like a fast-moving torrent that will not always flow.<\/p>\n Avoid permanent (infinite\/interminable) procrastination!<\/p>\n Never procrastinate on what is important to you.<\/strong><\/p>\n What is each best \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122?<\/p>\n Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t project for myself months and years in long sequence.<\/p>\n Seize TODAY \u00e2\u20ac\u201d TODAY is slipping away!<\/p>\n Fight passion, the enemy front line with full-frontal assault!<\/p>\n CRUSH vices, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just nip them.<\/p>\n Crush the vice-head of snake.<\/p>\n Vicissitude (alternation) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d changing, fortune\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sway.<\/p>\n \n It takes a tranquil and untroubled mind to roam freely over all the parts of life.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n We need tranquility and unperturbedness to roam over life \u00e2\u20ac\u201d don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t let my mind be preoccupied.<\/p>\n \n Whenever his last day comes, the sage will not<\/em> hesitate to go to his death with a SURE STEP.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t collect.<\/p>\n Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t waste time with entertainment.<\/p>\n Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t waste time with sports.<\/p>\n Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t waste time just learning songs or listening to songs for the sake of it\u00e2\u20ac\u201d unfortunately, all audio and songs will be forgotten into the future.<\/p>\n Avoid \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcidle occupation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n Pampered creatures \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the right word for unlearning life and normal human practice.<\/p>\n What is \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclife\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcnormal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 human practice?<\/p>\n The brain-sick are as good as dead.<\/strong><\/p>\n Be aware of my own leisure, use it to learn, to teach, to grow, and share.<\/p>\n Avoid useless facts.<\/p>\n Avoid useless knowledge!<\/strong><\/p>\n Only study philosophy.<\/p>\n Achieve TRUE GLORY \u00e2\u20ac\u201d how can I be of service to humanity?<\/p>\n Only study knowledge that will (practically) profit us.<\/strong><\/p>\n What is profitable, practical knowledge?<\/p>\n What useful purpose information?<\/p>\n How to become braver, more just (justice), and more \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgenerous of spirit?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n Better to not<\/em> have useless information, than to have useless information.<\/p>\n Annex past lifetimes to my own life – all the years past from other philosophers added to my own life.<\/p>\n Be grateful to past philosophers, annex beautiful treasures of philosophy from the past. Bring past philosophy to light!<\/strong><\/p>\n We have access to all ages from the past<\/p>\n Become a God.<\/p>\n TRANSCEND the narrow limitations of human weakness \u00e2\u20ac\u201d keep expanding my mind.<\/p>\n \n Overcome human nature with the Stoics; and go beyond it with the Cynics.<\/p>\n Give ourselves over completely to the past\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Study the past, because it is measureless and eternal \u00e2\u20ac\u201d so spending time with my betters!<\/p>\n Philosophers will teach me how to die.<\/p>\n Have a good role model of past philosophers to model myself after.<\/p>\n Open to myself the path to immortality, and raise myself to an elevation from nobody is cast down.<\/p>\n Prolong mortality \u00e2\u20ac\u201d we cannot become immortal \u00e2\u20ac\u201d extend lifespan.<\/p>\n All mortal: honor, monument, and ostentatious ambition (stone) are soon destroyed.<\/p>\n \n Theres nothing that the long lapse of time doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t demolish and transform.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Time cannot harm the works consecrated by wisdom: no age will efface (remove the face) them, no age will reduce them at all.<\/p>\n The next generation and age of humanity will enhance the respect, envy focuses on what is close at hand\u00e2\u20ac\u201d yet freely admire things from a distance.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthe sages life is ample in scope, and he is not constricted by the same limit that confines others\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n \n The sage is alone released from the limitations of the human race, and he is the master of all ages as though a god.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n If time is upon us, i can use it.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Be busy in \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcserene seclusion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to do more important things in life!<\/p>\n know my balance sheet of life than the balance sheet of my bank account<\/strong><\/p>\n serene seclusion, to help the greater number of people!<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n Choose pursuits that are calmer, safer, and more IMPORTANT (to humanity)<\/p>\n Leave ground level, and turn my eyes to studying the heavens, and universe!<\/p>\n Active interest, pursue my enthusiasm; to better things!<\/p>\n Love and practice of virtues, forgetfulness of passion, knowledge of how to live and die, and deep repose.<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n profit in life, have ppleasure, and have PROGRESS OF MIND<\/strong><\/p>\n How to develop your mind<\/p>\n Always hold death in view, and refrain from vain distant hopes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclife is short; art long.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 dont grieve \u00e2\u20ac\u201d we are given a long life; but we waste a lot of us! we have enough life and time to do the greatest things; if i \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-46789","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}i haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t lived 60 years, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve died for 60 years.<\/h2>\n
Death clock<\/h2>\n
Live now<\/h2>\n
Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be slow to action<\/h2>\n
Battle the passions with a vigorous attack!<\/h2>\n
WE have no control over the future<\/h2>\n
Tranquility<\/h2>\n
Step certainly in face of death<\/h2>\n
Avoid idle preoccupation<\/h2>\n
Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t become pampered<\/h2>\n
Avoid useless information<\/h2>\n
How to hold my passions in check?<\/h2>\n
How to become more generous<\/h2>\n
True leisure: focusing on philosophy<\/h2>\n
Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a weak human.<\/h2>\n