Meditations on Meditations
2017: one passage at a time from Marcus Aurelius's Meditations.
8 parts, 2017, in order.
- Part 1
Meditations on Meditations: Indignation (6:27)
“How barbarous, to deny men the privilege of pursuing what they imagine to be their proper concerns and interests!
- Part 2
Meditations on Meditations: Retreat (4:3)
People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills. But this is altogether un-philosophical, when it is possible for you to…
- Part 3
Meditations on Meditations: Change (7:18)
We shrink from change; yet is there anything that can come into being without it? What does Nature hold dearer, or more proper to herself? Could you have a hot…
- Part 4
Meditations on Meditations: Love (2:1)
Say to yourself first thing in the morning: I shall meet with people who are meddling, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, and unsociable. They are…
- Part 5
Meditations on Meditations: Adversity (4:49)
Be like the headland, on which the waves break constantly, which still stands firm, while the foaming waters are put to rest around it.
- Part 6
Meditations on Meditations: Core Beliefs (3.5)
In your actions let there be a willing promptitude, yet a regard for the common interest; due deliberation, yet no irresolution; and in your sentiments no…
- Part 7
Meditations on Meditations: Praise and Service (4.19)
The man whose heart is palpitating for fame after death does not reflect that out of all those who remember him every one will himself soon be dead also, and…
- Part 8
Meditations on Meditations: Contentment (10.1)
O soul of mine, will you never be good and sincere, all one, all open, visible to the beholder more clearly than even your encompassing body of flesh?