> I would turn to meditation assuming it would help me get things done but it had the opposite effect of avoiding what I needed to face. Marcus Aurelius—quoted

> I would turn to meditation assuming it would help me get things done but it had the opposite effect of avoiding what I needed to face. Marcus Aurelius—quoted from memory, so probably not quite right, and it's in translation at any rate: > You can pass your life in a calm flow of happiness, if you learn to think the right way and to act the right way. I personally found the "think the right way" easy to get into, but without the "act the right way" it can indeed lead to apathy, detachment, and avoidance. Whoops.