10 “Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber.2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.5 But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.”6 Jesus used this figure of speech, but the Pharisees did not understand what he was telling them.
Consider this the next time you feel self- important or like everything rises and falls on what you do next. It doesn't. You're just one person among many. That's all you need to do
— Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance and Art of Living —
Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
This is what you should teach me, how to be like Odysseus — how to love my country, wife and father, and how even after suffering shipwreck, I might keep sailing on course to those honorable ends.Seneca, Moral Letters, 88.7b
Anthony de Mello, Awareness Conversations with the Masters
A man and his wife went to visit friends in another part of the country and were taken to a racecourse. Fascinated by the sight of horses chasing one another around a track, the two of them kept betting all evening till they had no more than two dollars left. The following day the man prevailed upon his wife to let him go to the course alone.
