Marcus Aurelius (placeholder)
Last of the “Five Good Emperors” who governed the Roman Empire from 96 to 180, and is also considered one of the most important stoic philosophers.
Author: Meditations
Life advice which is as practical now as it was almost 2000 years ago.
The world is nothing but change. Our life is only perception
Choose not be harmed – and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed-and you haven’t been.
...you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?
Each of us lives only NOW this brief instant.
...be your own savior while you can
Nowhere you can go is more peaceful- more free of interruptions-than your own soul.
So, remember this principle when something threatens to cause pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.
Awaken; return to yourself. Now, no longer asleep, knowing they were only dreams, clear-headed again, treat everything around you as a dream.
Nothing has meaning to my mind except its own actions. Which are within its own control. And it’s only the immediate ones that matter. Its past and future actions too are meaningless.
Heraclitus: those who sleep are also hard at work- that they too collaborate in what happens.
Everywhere, at each moment, you have the option: -to accept this event with humility—to treat this person as he should be treatedto approach this thought with care, so that nothing irrational creeps in
...live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth. or pretense.
You could be good today. But instead you choose tomorrow.
What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
...to fear pain is to fear something that is bound to happen.
Everything that happens is either endurable or not. If it’s endurable. then endure it. Stop complaining.
If you don’t have a consistent goal in life, you can’t live
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