““I am your teacher and you are learning in my school. My aim is to bring you to completion, unhindered, free from compulsive behaviour, unrestrained, without shame, free, flourishing and happy, looking to God in things great and small - your aim is to learn and diligently practice all these things. Why then don’t you complete the work, if you have the right aim and I have both the right aim and right preparation? What is missing?… The work is quite feasible and is the only thing in our power… Let go of the past. We must only begin. Believe me and you will see.”
-Epictetus, Discourses
Rainbow Beach, Pentax MX, Kodak Pro Image 100, July 2025.
“We must give up many things to which we are addicted, considering them to be good. Otherwise, courage will vanish, which should continually test itself. Greatness of soul will be lost, which can’t stand out unless it disdains as petty what the mob regards as most desirable.”
-Seneca, Moral Letters
The big wide ocean. Pentax MX, Kodak Pro Image 100, July 2025.
“Keep this thought at the ready at daybreak, and through the day and night- there is only one path to happiness, and that is in giving up all outside of your sphere of choice, regarding nothing else as your possession, surrendering all else to God and Fortune.”
-Epictetus, Discourses
Sunrise toward Rainbow Beach. Pentax MX, Cinstill 50D. July 2025.
All you need are these: certainty of judgement in the present moment; action for the common good in the present moment; and an attitude of gratitude in the present moment for anything that comes your way.”
-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Sunrise over ocean. Pentax MX, Cinstill 50D, July 2025.