If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.
Nothing is worth doing pointlessly. - Marcus Aurelius
Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.
- Marcus Aurelius
Our wills are ours, to make them Thine. - Marcus Aurelius
Our wills are ours, to make them Thine.
But that which is useful is the better. - Marcus Aurelius
But that which is useful is the better.
We are the other of the other - Marcus Aurelius
We are the other of the other
Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing. - Marcus Aurelius
Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. - Marcus Aurelius
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own. - Marcus Aurelius
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. - Marcus Aurelius
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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