Excerpted from Christopher Morley’s A Book of Days: Being a Briefcase packed for his own Pleasure
NOVEMBER 8, SUNDAY 1931
Non sunt ad coelum elevandae manus nec exorandus aedituus, ut nos ad aurem simulacri, quasi magis exaudiri possimus, admittat. Prope est a te deus, tecum est, intus est. Sacer intra nos spiritus sedet, malorum bonorumque nostrorum observator et custos.
[It is vain to raise hands toward heaven or to beg the sexton to admit us to the ear of the image, as though we might thus be heard the better. God is near thee, he is beside thee, he is within thee. The holy spirit lives inside ourselves, observer and guardian of our good and ill.]
— SENECA, Epistles
