Echoes

Some truths are so old they have forgotten how to die.

They were spoken in Sanskrit and Greek, in Arabic and Latin — by men who never met, across centuries that never touched. And yet they kept arriving at the same conclusions. About the restless mind. About suffering chosen and unchosen. About what it costs to love, to act, to be present in a life that keeps accelerating.

Echoes brings thirty-five of those truths home.

Each poem begins with a single aphorism from an ancient voice — Marcus Aur...