
“The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
“The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.”
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.”
Hays translation
II, 11
Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book II
Letter to Aysel Şengün (2001)
Context: Hold on to what you have until we meet again. And then we will have a very beautiful eternal life, where no problems exist and where there is no mourning, in castles of gold and silver and, and, and I did not leave you alone, Allah is with you and with my parents. If you need anything, then ask him what you need. He listens and knows what is within you.
Address to the United Nations Fourth Committee in New York
2015
No Shelter.
Song lyrics, The Battle of Los Angeles (1999)
Source: Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide-and-Seek (2017), p. 8