And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.
- Cassius to Brutus in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, I.ii
Although the ides of March are not for another two weeks, it seems wholly apt to begin a mindfulness blog with this quotation from Shakespeare. This is what I hope the blog will be – a mirror for my own self-discovery.
That the subject is Brutus must be irony worthy of the Bard himself.