“You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”
“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse”
“Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.”
“Our shoes carry our body, so we polish them; our body carries our soul, so we clean the body, but, what about our soul”?”
“Use, do not abuse; the wise man arrange things so. I flee Epictetus and Petronius alike. Neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.”
“We live and work in a world that carries preoccupations about money, but what does the soul care about such things?”