If you become depressed or bored in your retirement…
Page 31 If you become depressed or bored in your retirement, he advised, Seneca, just look around you and interest yourself in the variety and sublimity of things. Salvation lies and paying full attention to nature. Seneca meant nature as primarily the natural phenomenon around us well m took it to mean himself. He began watching and questioning his own experience and writing down what he observed .
— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations) · How to Live by Sarah Bakewell
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