"Look to the essence of a thing,..." - Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision.”

“Be content to seem what you really are.”

“Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.”

“Be suspicious of what you want.”

“Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it.”

“He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.”

“What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.”

“Peace is our natural state of being.”

“What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you.”