Meditations by Marcus AureliusMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Maybe you keep "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff" or something in your workplace, but I get consolation and wisdom through pulling out passages like this when I need a perception tune-up: "Imagine everything who is grieved at anything or discontented to be like a pig which is sacrificed and kicks and screams." Now, that is fatalism on fire.
It is truly moving the humility and questioning and truth-seeking of this man of power and authority.
“Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.”
“This thing, what is it in itself, in its own constitution? What is its substance and material? And what its causal nature (or form)? And what is it doing in the world? And how long does it subsist?”
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