Yoga Sutras II.16

Heyam duhkham anagatam. “Avoid future suffering.”

I.e., don't choose today what you know will bring you trouble tomorrow (or next year).

This is part of a journal page. The Sanskrit text of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is written in a script called devanagari. I pretended it was a drawing I was copying. The line above the devanagari that says 'raga dvesa raga dvesa' illustrates how we go back and forth between attachment and aversion (like a beer bust and its resulting hangover). The line below the devanagari is the transliteration of the sutra into Roman text.

This sutra strikes me as very wise. People have studied it for two millennia, and it remains fresh—at least for me.

May you avoid future suffering.