That’s enough

Enough comes from the inside.*
Ryan Holiday

Direct your eye right inward, and you’ll find
A thousand regions in your mind
Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be
Expert in home-cosmography.**
Henry David Thoreau

You are enough,
Never tell yourself otherwise;
Explore this inner terrain, gathering your discoveries
into stories or maps,
Returning to these often –
Even every day if possible –
Training yourself to see yourself and
the world more as they are.

Here are two modern archetypes:
The flâneur and flâneuse have trained themselves
to wander,
If they vacillate or dither it is only because
they have more than enough to prospect:
he or she is indecisive,
unsure of where to go,
embarrassed by his or her choices
;^
The Infinite player has more than enough time because:
Time does not pass for the infinite player.
Each moment of time is a beginning of
a period of time.

It is the beginning of an event that
gives the time within its
specific quality.^^

*Ryan Holiday’s Stillness Is the Key;
**Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (adapted by Nicholas Bone);
^Edmund White’s The Flâneur;
^^James Carse’s Finite and Infinite Games.

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