You Are An Essential Piece In The Puzzle

A Fascinating Fragment of a Floor Mosaic representing Ktisis— (Image via the Met Museum, New York)

You are not an isolated entity,

but a unique, irreplaceable part of the cosmos.

Do not forget this.

You are an essential piece in the puzzle of humanity.

These words are believed to belong to Epictetus, a leading Greek Stoic philosopher who was born nearly…