Saturday, October 07, 2006

this conflagration consumes

mood: a little ragged.
state i'm in: still recovering from keg IV.
tune: 2pac "pain".


our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. it needs no specific material. it pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. as a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. what's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.

marcus aurelius "meditations" book 4; 1.

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