#!/usr/bin/env bash export DISPLAY=:0 n=$(shuf -i 0-10 -n 1) case $n in 0) notify-send -u low "Ask yourself:" "Am I being productive, or making \ busy work?" ;; 1) notify-send -u low "Ask yourself:" "Is what I'm doing now making money,\ or just spinning wheels?" ;; 2) notify-send -u low "Remember:" \ "Concentrate every minute like a Roman - like a man - on doing \ what's in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, \ tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from \ all other distractions. Yes, you can - if you do everything as if \ it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop \ being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind \ tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable. You \ see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and \ reverent life? If you can manage this, that's all even the gods \ can ask of you." ;; 3) notify-send -u low "How to act:" "Never under compulsion, out of \ selfishness, without forethought, with misgivings." ;; 4) notify-send -u low "How to act:" "Don't gussy up your thoughts." ;; 5) notify-send -u low "How to act:" \ "No surplus words or unnecessary actions." ;; 6) notify-send -u low "How to act:" \ "To stand up straight - not straightened." ;; 7) notify-send -u low "Forget everythin else." \ "Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, \ this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible \ to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth \ in which we live it. Small as even the greatest renown, passed from \ mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures, ignorant alike of \ themselves and those long dead." ;; 8) notify-send -u low "Practice really hearing what people say. Do your \ best to get inside their minds." ;; 9) notify-send -u low "Perfection of character:" "to live your last day, \ every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense." ;; 10) notify-send -u low "It stares you in the face." \ "No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in \ right now." ;; esac