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LIAM MILBURN: Stoic Reflections on Friendship
LIAM MILBURN: Stoic Reflections on Hardship
LIAM MILBURN: Reflections on Seneca: The Happy Life
LIAM MILBURN: Reflections on Seneca: Peace of Mind
LIAM MILBURN: To Want for Nothing: Reflections on Musonius Rufus
LIAM MILBURN: The Things in Our Power: Reflections on the Handbook of Epictetus
LIAM MILBURN: Living with Nature: Reflections on the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 1-4
LIAM MILBURN: Living with Nature: Reflections on the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 5-6
LIAM MILBURN: Living with Nature: Reflections on the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 7
LIAM MILBURN: Living with Nature: Reflections on the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 8
LIAM MILBURN: Living with Nature: Reflections on the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 9
LIAM MILBURN: Living with Nature: Reflections on the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 10
LIAM MILBURN: Living with Nature: Reflections on the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius 11-12
LIAM MILBURN: Rule Your Hearts by Love: Reflections on the Consolation of Boethius
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Wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita 18
8-9. The knower of Truth, being centered in the Self should think,
"I do nothing at all"—though seeing, hearing, touching, smelling,
eating, going, sleeping, breathing, speaking, letting go, holding,
opening and closing the eyes—convinced that it is the senses that move
among sense-objects.
10. He who does actions forsaking attachment, resigning them to
Brahman, is not soiled by evil, like unto a lotus-leaf by water.
11. Devotees in the path of work perform action, only with body,
mind, senses, and intellect, forsaking attachment, for the purification
of the heart.
12. The well-poised, forsaking the fruit of action, attains peace,
born of steadfastness; the unbalanced one, led by desire, is bound by
being attached to the fruit of action.
13. The subduer of the senses, having renounced all actions by
discrimination, rests happily in the city of the nine gates, neither
acting, nor causing others to act.
14. Neither agency, nor actions does the Lord create for the world,
nor does He bring about the union with the fruit of action. It is
universal ignorance that does it all.
15. The Omnipresent takes note of the merit or demerit of none.
Knowledge is enveloped in ignorance, hence do beings get deluded.
16. But whose ignorance is destroyed by the knowledge of Self—that
knowledge of theirs, like the sun, reveals the Supreme Brahman.
17. Those who have their intellect absorbed in That, whose self is
That, whose steadfastness is in That, whose consummation is That, their
impurities cleansed by knowledge, they attain to Non-return, to Moksha (Liberation ).
—Bhagavad Gita , 5:8-17
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