Meditations
recurrent cycles. The logos and its employment are forces sufficient for themselves and for their works. They start from their ...
—Lives are led at court.... Then good ones can be. ii. Things gravitate toward what they were intended for. What things gravitat ...
alone. It takes the things before it and interprets them as it sees fit. In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job ...
community isn’t injured by it, neither am I. And if it is, anger is not the answer. Show the offender where he went wrong. Keep ...
keeping those feelings in their place. When they make their way into your thoughts, through the sympathetic link between mind an ...
forfeit nothing. If the smoke makes me cough, I can leave. What’s so hard about that? Until things reach that point, I’m free. N ...
soul with skill and understanding? —And which is that? The one that knows the beginning and the end, and knows the logos that ru ...
—and nothing else is under your control. You can lead an untroubled life provided you can grow, can think and act systematicall ...
Where's the danger for the community? Not to be overwhelmed by what you imagine, but just do what you can and should. And if &l ...
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Nature is pliable, obedient. And the logos that governs it has no reason to do evil. It knows no evil, does none, and causes ha ...
Before long, all existing things will be transformed, to rise like smoke (assuming all things become one), or be dispersed in f ...
Or suppose (ii): Reverence. Serenity. Faith in the power responsible. When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstances, revert at onc ...
Pride is a master of deception: when you think you’re occupied in the weightiest business, that’s when he has you in his spell. ...
should we value when none of them can offer a firm foothold? Like an attachment to a sparrow: we glimpse it and it’s gone. And l ...
Then what is to be prized? An audience clapping? No. No more than the clacking of their tongues. Which is all that public praise ...
your own self, well integrated into your community and in tune with the gods as well—embracing what they allot you, and what the ...
If anyone can refute me—show me I’m making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective—I’ll gladly change. It’s t ...
If someone asked you how to write your name, would you clench your teeth and spit out the letters one by one? If he lost his te ...
happens. Make sure you remain straightforward, upright, reverent, serious, unadorned, an ally of justice, pious, kind, affection ...
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