a person who does not sleepwalk through the world…

Page 111 a person who does not sleepwalk through the world, moreover, is free to respond to situations in the right way, without hesitation - - as if they were questions asked all of a sudden, as a tennis puts it a violent attack, a coral, the loss of a friend: all these are demands bark that you by life, is by a school teacher trying to catch you not paying attention in class. Even a moment of boredom is such a question. Whatever happens, however unforeseen of his, you should be able to respond in a precisely suitable way. That is why, for m, learning to live appropriately is the great and glorious masterpiece of human life. Stoics and epicureans alike approach to school mainly through rehearsal and meditation. Like a tennis player they would practice. It's a form of hypnotism. Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius kept notebooks in which he would go over the changes of perspective you wish to drill into himself: how good it is, when you have roast meat or such like foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig; and again, that the felonian wine is the mirror juice of grapes and your purple-aged robe simply the hair of a sheep soaked and shellfish blood!

— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)

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