While you are doing something, always ask yourself how you will feel about the deed afterwards.
To rouse yourself in the morning for work, remember that men and beasts sleep, only men get up and do work which betters the world around them.
Nothing wrong with changing your mind, provided the reasons are solid.
Aurelius really seems to think that Nature provides purpose to things. And that those things should not fight their designated purposes, but take comfort in them. I don't know if I agree with that fully.
Receive blessings without ostentation and you will find it easier to part with them if they are taken away.
Past or future can't harm you, only the present. Just take a moment to reflect on the present and it will pass.
I'm done with it. Finally. It got a little repetitive near the end, esp. when Aurelius kept saying things like (paraphrasing) "life is short, great men and small men all die and are reabsorbed by the earth"
There are some things I disagree with Aurelius on: Namely his continued insistence that the universe subscribes a nature onto you and that what is mean to be will be. "The rock doesn't care if it goes up or down or hits the ground"... well that is all well and good but... rocks are not men. Easy for Aurelius to say, he was born into some rich families, given opportunities and education... I will reflect on this a while.
One thing I found interesting is that both As a Man Thinketh and Meditations stressed the importance of calmness of mind, rationality and well tended thought.
Sordes = debris, especially bodily crust
To rouse yourself in the morning for work, remember that men and beasts sleep, only men get up and do work which betters the world around them.
Nothing wrong with changing your mind, provided the reasons are solid.
Aurelius really seems to think that Nature provides purpose to things. And that those things should not fight their designated purposes, but take comfort in them. I don't know if I agree with that fully.
Receive blessings without ostentation and you will find it easier to part with them if they are taken away.
Past or future can't harm you, only the present. Just take a moment to reflect on the present and it will pass.
I'm done with it. Finally. It got a little repetitive near the end, esp. when Aurelius kept saying things like (paraphrasing) "life is short, great men and small men all die and are reabsorbed by the earth"
There are some things I disagree with Aurelius on: Namely his continued insistence that the universe subscribes a nature onto you and that what is mean to be will be. "The rock doesn't care if it goes up or down or hits the ground"... well that is all well and good but... rocks are not men. Easy for Aurelius to say, he was born into some rich families, given opportunities and education... I will reflect on this a while.
One thing I found interesting is that both As a Man Thinketh and Meditations stressed the importance of calmness of mind, rationality and well tended thought.
Sordes = debris, especially bodily crust
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