Ego, a photo by aftab. on Flickr.
'The irony with this battle was that there were principles I would have to abandon in order to survive.
Instead of persisting on my own, I would have to give myself over - to seek help.
Ego can destroy. At our most desperate point in life our ego will not save us.'
from Broken Open
by Craig Hamilton with Neil Jameson
Bantam Books 2004
http://www.craig-hamilton.com/
perseverance, a photo by withrow on Flickr.
'I have an aim, which compels me to go on living and for the sake of which I must cope with even the most painful of matters. Without this aim I would take things much more lightly - that is, I would stop living.'
Friedrich Nietzsche, letter to Franz Overbeck, summer 1883
Mindfulness, a photo by jah~ on Flickr.
'They (the Stoics) argued that happiness was not something guaranteed by other people or things.
These are changeable and out of our control.
All that we can be sure of is our own soul: for good or ill, all happiness is prefaced on this preparedness.
It takes mindfulness, discipline, honesty.'
by Dr Damon Young, philosopher at the University of Melbourne, and author of Distraction.
from The Saturday Age, 30-31 December 2011, p. 17
