Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library) by Aurelius Marcus

Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library) by Aurelius Marcus

Author:Aurelius, Marcus [Aurelius, Marcus]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781588361738
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2002-05-14T04:00:00+00:00


24. Remember:

Matter. How tiny your share of it.

Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it.

Fate. How small a role you play in it.

25. So other people hurt me? That’s their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature, what I do by my own.

26. The mind is the ruler of the soul. It should remain unstirred by agitations of the flesh—gentle and violent ones alike. Not mingling with them, but fencing itself off and keeping those feelings in their place. When they make their way into your thoughts, through the sympathetic link between mind and body, don’t try to resist the sensation. The sensation is natural. But don’t let the mind start in with judgments, calling it “good” or “bad.”



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