Meditations

“surrender yourself completely to clothho marcus realius reminded himself let her spin your web out of whatever events she wishes ”

“mark mark's in meditation he says um let me see if i can find it this meeting sounds great but i'm actually gonna die ”

“in meditations marcus aurelius had an interesting quote ”

“marx arielus writes in meditations in the same way an emerald or gold or purple might always proclaim whatever anyone does or says i must be what i am and show my true colors ”

“that's what you see in meditations you see marcus aurelius fighting to be a bright light in the dark time ”

“marcus aurelius' meditation nine six all you need are these ”

“in this case he was spot on wilde is quoted as saying imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness however according to the oxford dictionary of proverbs a version of the idea originated with second century roman emperor marcus aurelius who in meditations wrote you should consider that imitation is the most acceptable part of worship ”

“we know marcus releas kept a little book in addition to meditations called like the the lives of greeks and romans ”

“but there is a passage in meditations in which marks really walks through this exact process ”

“one of my favorite passages in meditations is marcus real is actually quoting someone else ”

“if meditations is antiquity the soviet dissident joseph brodsky once said then it is we who are the ruins ”

“marcus aurelius in meditations he says it does not matter what the chattering tongues of prosperity say about you ”

“the roman emperor marcus aurelius encapsulates this in his private journal turned post gutenberg bestseller the meditations ”

“marcus writes in meditations we cannot remain as we are ”

“marcus talks about the idea of the common good something like eighty times in meditations ”

“the whole universe has changed and life itself is but what you deem it and this is marcus aurelius in the meditation ”

“there's a a line in meditations remarks really his philosophy teacher for teaching him not to fall for every smooth talker ”

“mark schwilis famously says in meditations they can't impede our intentions or our attitudes ”

“there's this famous passage in mark schmutz where he talks about waking up early in the morning and he's like but it's warmer under the covers do i want to get up ”

“my whole life was changed by a copy of mark spulis' meditations that i bought for nine dollars ”

“marcus aurelius in meditations talks about olives falling right from the tree onto the ground ”

“one of my favorite quotes from the stoics it's in meditations ”

“marcus aurelius took them up in his private journal quoting earlier thinkers wrestling with their ideas bringing them to bear in his own life ”

“you could leave life right now mark skrillis writes in meditations ”

“what we now call meditations think of everything that's happened since then empires have risen and fallen entire countries have come into existence we've invented the printing press the airplane the internet we've walked on the moon and yet you open meditations and there he is ”

“and as mark sullivan says in meditations we have within us all the things we need at this very moment ”

“there are more than eighty references in the meditations to the common good ”

“marcus aurelius meditations book nine verse four ”

“general mattis uh former secretary of defense fourstar general in the marines carries marcus aelius's ”

“but my favorite part about meditations as a ”

“two thousand years ago marcus realised in his meditation he tells us how to think about it and what to do about it ”

“i mean that's my experience you read mark smith's meditations and you're like this cannot be from a god king two thousand years ago ”

“people try to get away from it all to the country to the beach to the mountains mark solius writes in meditations ”

“the passage marks in march medication book five ”

“marcus realis didn't want to be emperor so it's interesting that in meditations he gives this rule to himself ”

“somebody hands mark srelius meditations right ”

“because about 20 years ago i read this book marcus aurelius's meditations the private thoughts of the most powerful man in the world ”

“and then the possibility that meditations or as william prefers to call them the memoranda were written in those final years of marcus's life ”

“marcus aurelius's meditations 848 ”

“this is why in meditations marx really just reminds himself that we always have the power to have no opinion ”

“let me start by showing you a book that changed my life so this is my copy of marcus aurelius's meditations which was recommended to me when i was about 20 years old ”

“the first is from marcus aurelius meditations 11 3 ”

“marcus aurelius wrote down his own thoughts because that's how meditations survives to us ”

“perhaps that's what he's referencing in this interesting passage in meditations where he says a philosopher without clothes and one without books ”

“i mean obviously i i am a meditations fan i know stoicism is falling out of favor a little bit right now but like it's been um a lifelong thing for me and um i have a copy of ”

“in meditations marx reallyus reminds himself not to get lost in this to lose the perspective of what is happening ”

“changed marcus aurelius too or he wouldn't have needed to write in meditations about his struggle to resist being caesarified or stained purple ”

“marcus really supposedly would read his philosophy or write in meditations in his ”

“in book one of meditations where marcus reelis catalogues the most important things he learned throughout his life he said that he learned from a teacher named sextus to be free of passion yet full of love ”

“marcus aurelius opens meditations by thanking the teacher who taught him to read attentively ”

“does mark s really talk about pompeii at all in meditations ”

“in meditations which he's writing here in the this very building ”

“marcus realis' passage in meditations which referenced being a citizen of the world ”

“he says actually something similar to this later in meditations where um where he says uh you know you couldn't exist without change ”

“enough of this wretched whining monkey life mark srielis writes in meditations ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s

“mark schwier says in meditations ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 2s

“whether you've read meditations a dozen times whether you've read epitus we think this will all help you in a big way ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s

“or their copy of meditations which i can see you know looks as beaten up as my paperback copy of meditations ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 8s

“marcus wrote in meditations ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 1s

“you can also bundle it with a copy of meditations 2 ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s

“well mark schwieris talks about it in meditations he says when you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning say to yourself is this what i was put here to do ”

“that's one of the most fascinating and and revealing passages in meditations ”

“mark serialis's meditations is two thousand years old ”

“that's marcus in meditations four twenty four ”

“there's a great line in meditations where he's saying like fight to be the person that philosophy tried to make you ”

“evoking epicurus in one of his notes to self in meditations ”

“just reading through meditations and just highlighting passages and there so much speaks to me ”

“right you could leave life right now marx really says in meditations ”

“that landed heavy enough on marcus aurelius that he wrote it down in his work meditations ”

“marcus aurelius's meditations is like the famous text in soak philosophy ”

“even the epictetus that marcus aurelius quotes in his meditations is coming to us from lecture notes from his students ”

“well because of marcus aurelius's meditations his his the private thoughts of of this totally unique singular man we have some idea ”

“there's this quote in meditations about how the best revenge is to not be like that ”

“as marx realis did in 4 3 and meditations ”

“marcus aurelius's meditations is the unguarded private thoughts the most powerful man in the world ”

“and marcus reelus and meditations are that i mean meditations is a very popular philosophy book ”

“one of the passages in meditations marcus aurelius says fight to be the person philosophy tried to make you ”

“that's why meditations is filled with quotes from epictetus ”

“in fact he speaks about it in his famous meditations ”

“we see marcus aurelius do this in meditations repeatedly quoting lines from epictetus ”

“meditations by marcus arelis and i was like wow like this is this is incredible ”

“i i think the reason that marx realius' meditations his work of philosophy has endured for almost 20 centuries is because that really powerful busy person who's taking the time at morning at night to converse with himself ”

“that's meditations 2 7 ”

“marcus realis in in meditations would talk about how we change our life action by action ”

“a quote comes to us from marcus aurelius's meditations 812 ”

“he had to fight to be the person philosophy tried to make him as he said in meditations ”

“in meditations marx realis talks about how people who do evil often have had their souls cut off from truth ”

“we know that rusticus loans him a copy because he mentions that in in meditations ”

“this is actually shockingly similar to some themes we see in marcus aurelius and in meditations ”

“that's marcus aurelius' meditations 11 9 ”

“he he actually addresses it in meditations he says consider that before long you'll be nobody just like hadrian just like augustus ”

“this is marcus aurelius's meditations 7 six ”

“in meditations marx really says that one of the things he learns from his philosophy teacher rusticus ”

“i think mark schreelius's meditations is one of the most incredible books ever written ”

“it's marcus aurelius's meditations 5 6 ”

“if you look in his famous meditations one of the greatest books ever written ”

“in meditations marx realis expresses a similar idea about not doing anything that needs to be concealed behind walls or curtains ”

“and there's a lot of rivers metaphors in meditations ”

“we know that from marks aurelius in his meditations 'cause mars aurelius was although often cited as a modern self help ”

“that's marcus aurelius's meditation 715 ”

“we must remember the hopeful note that marcus aurelius strikes at the end of meditations ”

“and then mark curelius's meditations marcus then influenced by epictetus ”

“mark shrewd talks about this in meditations you are saying double yes to the things that actually matter ”

“mark surelis actually reminds himself of this in meditations in addition to that famous passage ”

“that's meditations 5 twenty ”

“at dawn when you have trouble getting out of bed tell yourself i have to go to work as a human being ”

“marcus aurelius's meditations 121 ”

“actually the very first thing that marcus aurelius says that he learns from antoninus when he mentions it in meditations ”

“meditations right because it was just his drink ”

“marcus aurelius would write in meditations that his stoic role models taught him to conceive of a society of equal laws ”

“and there's a actually a very interesting parenting example in in mark's realis' meditations where he goes like your child is sick ”

“it's why he writes about it in meditations ”

“that's marcus aurelius's meditations 77 ”

“the most famous passage in meditations is marcus aurelius struggling to get out of bed at dawn ”

“i remember i was 20 years old going through marcus realis's meditations and this thing he said hit me it hit me so hard ”

“and perhaps this explains some of the weariness in marx aurelius's meditations ”

“mark's really in meditations he's talking about how people who love what they do wear themselves down doing it ”

“i had always operated and this is what i learned about myself through reading you know meditations marcus aurelius ”

“i think this is actually quite similar to what marx reelis talks about in meditations where he says you know the impediment to action advances action ”

“there's a line in meditations where mark's realist talks about um how long that take ”

“robert himself once showed me his copy of marcus aurelius which had tons of little notes in the corner ”

“isn't that how we got meditations or seneca's letters ”

“there's actually a an an interesting passage in meditations that uh for a long time i i didn't quite understand what what he meant this is meditations book seven okay book seven sixty five ”

“as far as i know mark surelius never goes to space maybe maybe we but is that meditations this is meditations ”

“mark cerelius says that we assemble our life action by action ”

“seneca's letters or marcus aurelius's meditations ”

“it's one of the fascinating themes in meditations how often he returns to the idea of change ”

“marx realis talks about this in meditations that he learns from his philosophy teacher this is a passage here i underlined in book one of meditations ”

“this is from meditations 748 watch the stars in their courses and imagine yourself running alongside them marcus also says in meditations ”

“in meditations he talks about trying to get up early and he has this fantastic conversation with himself ”

“and here's mark surelius on meditations joy for human beings lies in proper human work ”

“marcus aurelius wrote in his meditations you have power over your mind not outside events ”

“there's a line in meditations where marx realistically saying concentrate like a roman and do this thing in front of you as if it is the last thing you are doing in your life ”

“i think this is another important way to read meditations right ”

“mark schreelis also writes in meditations about going directly to the seat of knowledge ”

“meditations from marcus aurelius and i'm like where the hell have i been or where's that book been ”

“one of the most wonderful passages in meditations is where marcus aurelius looks at his own troubles with worry and fear ”

“but we are lucky that say marx reelius's meditations survives ”

“he carries mark surelius' meditations with him ”

“this is marcus aurelius's meditations eleven eighteen ”

“obviously mark schwilis is meditations this is the book that changed my life at 19 ”

“marcus aurelius the man we experience in meditations was a remarkable person ”

“he's not writing in meditations from this sort of sagelike zen perspective of having triumphed over his emotions ”

“in meditations marx rulis talks about practicing holding the reins in his nondominant hand ”

“most importantly as mark swilis writes in meditations i love the hayes translation ”

“mark sreelis's meditations a book written almost 2000 years ago it's the private thought of the emperor of rome never intended to be published ”

“meditations is marcus aurelius journaling and talking to himself ”

“this is mark shrelius's meditations the private thoughts of the most powerful man in the world ”

“there's a line of meditations which whenever i do military talks i always bring up ”

“stoicism i think like marcus aurelius's meditations is so informative on so many levels ”

“mark strelius writes in meditations ”

“yeah marcus aurelius in meditations he writes um today i uh escaped anxiety ”

“things i've taken from meditations things i've taken from the biographical information we have about marcus ”

“if he hadn't he never would have written this little reminder in meditations ”

“instead marcus aurelius explores himself in the pages of meditations ”

“i'm talking of course about marcus aurelius's meditation the private thoughts of the emperor of rome ”

“we are doing a live qunka deep dive into meditations as part of what we've been calling meditations month ”

“marcus aurelius thanks rusticus at the beginning of meditations for teaching him that he needed to train and discipline his character ”

“yet within the pages of meditations we witness marcus aurelius doing something very different ”

“so that meditations survives is a miracle of history we have in the pages of this little book the thoughts of the most powerful man in the world ”

“in meditations marx rilis talks about how what's bad for the hive is bad for the bee ”

“mark squilius writes in meditations look closely and you'll see not just the right one overall but right as if someone had weighed it out with scales ”

“best lessons from marcus aurelius's meditations and most importantly how to actually use them ”

“but in meditations marx rius he he explicitly talks about this he says you have to be careful not to be caesarified or died purple ”

“it's marcus aurelius's meditations 1137 ”

“marcus aelius the author of that book we're talking about meditations would steer you in a different direction though ”

“that's actually one of my favorite passages in meditations where mark srealis is sort of like observing all these beautiful things in nature ”

“in a way this is a similar story to marcus aurelius's meditations ”

“marcus aurelius wrote about moments exactly like this in meditations ”

“don't return to philosophy as a taskmaster marx realis says in meditations ”

“in meditations marcus reel says like alexander the great and his mule driver the sa they both die they're both buried in the same ground and the same thing happens to both ”

“what this means what marx realis is trying to say in meditations is that when something gets in the way of the mission we've been given a gift ”

“reading meditations is also just an insight into the mind of a man who is to himself ”

“when i first picked up meditations 18 years ago i had no idea how much that book would impact my life ”

“one of the fundamental ironies of of marcus aurelius's meditations is you're reading uh a book that is still a bestseller ”

“i think like marcus aurelius's meditations is so informative on so many levels ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s

“it's clear in meditations that someone did this for mark cerelius ”

“you can look at something like marcus aurelius's meditations this is the private thoughts of the most powerful man in the world ”

“what initially resonated with me was a passage from marcus aurelius that i first read in the daily stoic and then reread in meditations ”

“and yet so many people struggle with and get frustrated by marcus aurelius's meditations ”

“in meditations he writes that he told himself each morning he would encounter difficult people and difficult circumstances ”

“in fact one of the lines in meditations suggests as much where he says that he measures himself not by how many honors he's received but how many he's turned down ”

“i found this book um meditations by marcus aurelius which i i think was quite formative for how you see things in some respects and generally stoicism ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 8s

“so why has meditations by marcus aurelius endured and influenced across so many centuries ”

“meditations is technically 170 pages ”

“this is a famous passage in meditations that i love ”

“in marcus cerelis's meditations that's what you're seeing ”

“and sometimes we'll read yeah we read something from socrates or you read something in meditations and you go that's a beautiful idea ”

“you'll hear that bill clinton loves meditations he'll read it every year he revisits it ”

“it's clear from meditations that marcus aurelius in addition to his interior explorations was a walker ”

“joan didion his steely stoic wife responded with something we could imagine marcus aurelius reminding himself of in meditations ”

“one of the interesting things about mark surios' meditations is the first like 10 pages are just him thanking all his teachers and mentors ”

“haven't you ever read marcus aurelius's meditations this is this is not a new idea ”

“marcus realius meditations 43 ”

“stop wandering about marcus says to himself in meditations perhaps on the eve of a seasonal change like this one ”

“these are consistent things between marcus aurelius and meditations and stoicism ”

“remember how long you've been putting this off marx realis writes how many extensions the gods gave you and you didn't use them ”

“marx really famously talks about waking up early in meditations ”

“maybe it's meditations of marcus aurelius one of my favorite books of all time ”

“mark sri lis talks about the common good maybe forty fifty times in meditations ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s

“someone recommended meditations and i read it ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s

“read like meditations and stuff like that ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 2s

“so you're reading stoicism that's pretty cool so meditations and marcus aurelius and all that stuff ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s

“there's a passage in meditations where mark's really sort of criticizing the people who are always trying to delve into what lies beneath ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s

“meditations by marcus aurelius was absolutely life changing for me because it's the personal diary of the emperor of rome ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 7s

“one of the beautiful lines in meditations marks really says um remember tolerant with others strict with yourself ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 7s

“this is also very reminiscent of marcus aurelius and meditations of course ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s

“and this is also very reminiscent of marcus aurelius and meditations of course ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s

“would you rather have them reading ayn rand or seneca or marcus aurelius ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s

“like the marcus aurelius type of thing where he's a philosopher i read his book and shit and but like he was leading an army ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s

“my favorite two are marcus aurelius meditations the the gregory hayes translation is i think the best one ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s

“one book that came up in my research and feel free to confirm or deny because you can't believe everything you read on the internet but are you a fan of meditations by marcus aurelius ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 12s

“so i go i buy meditations by marcus aurelius i sit down i start to read it ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s

“that book is like i mean if you really allow yourself to slowly read and allow those words and allow those phrases to be like imprinted in your mind i mean that book has more you could read only that book ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 13s

“marcus aurelius i would say one big fan of meditations um you know stoic philosophy i read meditations um ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 9s

“aurelius goes further um most on this which is really just he very very the spoke meditation state this is just his diary ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 9s

“are you a fan of meditations by marcus aurelius ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s

“and then i have meditations right here ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 2s

“marcus aurelius meditations i have given that away to to a number of people ” ▶ tap to hear this moment · 4s