Seneca - June 1st, Iyengar II & I

I picked up a collection of Seneca’s essays at a bookstore in Rome, 2019. It was the end of my trip and although I had wandered into several bookstores, the English language sections hadn’t yielded much in the way of poetry - lots of mysteries and John Grisham. I jumped on the Seneca. The father of Stoic philosophy, despite how that sounds, a beautiful thinker. For Standing Pose week, “eager and upright”.

On the Shortness of Life

…The world you see, nature's greatest and most glorious creation, and the human mind which gazes and wonders at it, and is the most splendid part of it, these are our own everlasting possessions and will remain with us as long as we ourselves remain. So, eager and upright, let us hasten with bold steps wherever circumstances take us…