For with his intellectual part alone he touches the intelligence only, which has flowed and been derived from himself into these bodies.
And if you also used yourself to do this, you will rid yourself of your much trouble.
For he who regards not the poor flesh which envelops him, surely will not trouble himself by looking after raiment and dwelling and fame and such like externals and show.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.2
IMAGE: William Blake, Ezekiel's Vision (c. 1805)
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