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A MEDITATION

“ One should eat to live, not live to eat.

— Musonius Rufus

Lectures 18b

On control

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A reflection

If the dinner becomes the day, you've inverted the hierarchy. Food is fuel for the life you're living, not a substitute for it. Same applies to most pleasures: they work as servants, not masters.

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