Contemplation

You can discard most of the junk that clutters your mind (understanding that these things really only exist there - in your mind) and clear out space for yourself by:

• contemplating the scale of the world

• contemplating infinite time

• thinking of the speed with which things change - each part of every thing; the narrow space between our birth and death; the infinite time before; the equally unbounded time that follows.

— Excerpted from Marcus Aurelius Meditations: Book 9, Meditation 32

photograph by Lisa Thrower