Meditations
Which means: thought and action resulting in the common good. What you were born to do. You can discard most of the junk that c ...
praise help them. To decompose is to be recomposed. That’s what nature does. Nature—through whom all things happen as they sho ...
That’s all there is. And the gods? Well, you could try being simpler, gentler. Even now. A hundred years or three.... No differe ...
—But those are things the gods left up to me. Then isn’t it better to do what’s up to you—like a free man —than to be passively ...
Like that. In illness—or any other situation. Not to let go of philosophy, no matter what happens; not to bandy words with crack ...
And how does it injure you anyway? You’ll find that none of the people you’re upset about has done anything that could do damage ...
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To my soul: Are you ever going to achieve goodness? Ever going to be simple, whole, and naked—as plain to see as the body that ...
censure? Focus on what nature demands, as if you were governed by that alone. Then do that, and accept it, unless your nature a ...
blame lies with you. Or no one. Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time. The twining str ...
transformation). If the process is harmful to the parts and unavoidable, then it’s hard to see how the whole can run smoothly, w ...
birth to. —But if you’re inextricably linked to it through your sense of individuality? That’s not what we’re talking about here ...
that you’ve been—to keep being mauled and degraded by the life you’re living—is to be devoid of sense and much too fond of life. ...
at accomplishing practical ends at the exercise of thought at maintaining a confidence founded on understanding. An unobtrusive ...
all he does, and nature in all that happens. What people say or think about him, or how they treat him, isn’t something he worri ...
Forgotten their behavior, their fears, their desires, their thefts and depredations—not physical ones, but those committed by wh ...
Or that everything was born to die. How they act when they eat and sleep and mate and defecate and all the rest. Then when they ...
Those are the only options. Reason for optimism. Keep always before you that “this is no different from an empty field,” and th ...
his takes it and goes to work, and creates a child. This... from that? Or: He pours food down his throat. And then a force not h ...
do so voluntarily. Stop whatever you’re doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won’t be able to do ...
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