Big Ideas from Meditations
“Big Ideas” are simply the gems I’ve pulled out of my favorite books/seminars/life lessons. These ones I pulled from Meditations
PhilosophersNotes on Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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- Marcus Aurelius: Soak Your Mind
- Marcus Aurelius: The Opinions of Others
- Marcus Aurelius: Time Is a River
- Marcus Aurelius: Visions of a Lifetime
- Marcus Aurelius: The Equanimity Game
- Marcus Aurelius: For What Were You Made?
- Marcus Aurelius: A Surplus of Time
- Marcus Aurelius: Your Power
Quotes from Meditations
Emerson instructed us to "Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of truimpth out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul."
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A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.
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Everything--a horse, a vine--is created for some duty...For what task, then, were you yourself created? A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
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Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses…
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Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.
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Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind.
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