Meditations
So that when your time comes, your conscience will be as clear as his. Awaken; return to yourself. Now, no longer asleep, knowi ...
their trade? Should we as humans feel less responsibility to our logos than builders or pharmacists do? A logos we share with th ...
other, and breathe together, and are one. The things ordained for you—teach yourself to be at one with those. And the people wh ...
consciously, with understanding; some without knowing it. (I think this is what Heraclitus meant when he said that “those who sl ...
And if they make no decisions, about anything—and it’s blasphemous even to think so (because if so, then let’s stop sacrificing, ...
died—all professions, all nationalities. Follow the thought all the way down to Philistion, Phoebus, and Origanion. Now extend i ...
The only thing that isn’t worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly. And be patient with those who don’t. When yo ...
accomplished. Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the thing ...
less powerful than bile or a rabid dog? No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothing can happen to you that ...
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Evil: the same old thing. No matter what happens, keep this in mind: It’s the same old thing, from one end of the world to the ...
servitude of ants, scampering of frightened mice, puppets jerked on strings. Surrounded as we are by all of this, we need to pra ...
same resources to draw on—the same logos. Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy; none of its parts are unconnected. The ...
unit. This will be clearer to you if you remind yourself: I am a single limb (melos) of a larger body—a rational one. Or you cou ...
conceives of them in the first place, and it suffers nothing. Because it will never conclude that it has. The mind in itself has ...
For “Epictetus” read any person, and any thing. My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature —the wrong thing, the ...
everything you see and use it as material for something else —over and over again. So that the world is continually renewed. Wh ...
Analyze what exists, break it all down: material and cause. Anticipate your final hours. Other people’s mistakes? Leave them to ...
long for and fear. Events like piles of sand, drift upon drift— each one soon hidden by the next. “ ‘If his mind is filled with ...
“For what is just and good is on my side.” No chorus of lamentation, no hysterics. “Then the only proper response for me to mak ...
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