Taking a moment each day to step back from day-to-day activity for a bit of peace and contemplation can reduce your anxiety, exercise your mind, and focus your decisions on your true priorities.

• • St. Benedict's Rule For Monks
• • Marcus Aurelius's Meditations
• • readings from Epicurus
• • Khawaja ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī
• • Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching
• • Mark Twain
• • Lucy Mallory
• • Robert Ingersoll
• • the Book of Ecclesiastes
• • Edna St. Vincent Millay
• • Omar Khayyám's Rubáiyát
• • Nezahualcoyōtl (Nahua philosopher-king)
• • The Dhammapada (a collection of sayings from Gautama Buddha)
• • readings from Evagrius Ponticus
• • Epictetus
• • precepts of the Odawa and Ojibwe peoples (translated by Makade-binesi a.k.a. Andrew Blackbird)
• • Lal Ded (14th c. CE Kashmiri Hindu mystic)
• • Friedrich Nietzsche
• • Pirkei Avot (collection of maxims from the Rabbinic Jewish tradition)
• • Rabindranath Tagore
• • Sol Plaatje (Tswana proverbs)
• • the Rhinoceros Sutra (very early Buddhist text advocating the merit of solitary asceticism for pursuing enlightenment as opposed to practicing as a householder or in a community of monastics)
• • Heraclitus
• • Rumi

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Taking a moment each day to step back from day-to-day activity for a bit of peace and contemplation can reduce your anxiety, exercise your mind, and focus your decisions on your true priorities.