LISTEN TO THIS: SENECA & MARCUS AURELIUS Have Something Wise To Tell You

🌿🌿🌿 “The fraction of infinity, of that vast abyss of time, allotted to each of us. Absorbed in an instant into eternity. The fraction of all substance, and all spirit. The fraction of the whole earth you crawl about on. Keep all that in mind, and don’t treat anything as important except doing what your nature demands, and accepting what Nature sends you.” © Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations”.🌿🌿🌿

"Your three components: body, breath, mind. Two are yours in trust; to the third alone you have clear title. If you can cut yourself-your mind-free of what other people do and say, of what you've said or done, of the things that you're afraid will happen, the impositions of the body that contains you and the breath within, and what the whirling chaos sweeps in from outside, so that the mind is freed from fate, brought to clarity, and lives life on its own recognizance - doing what's right, accepting what happens, and speaking the truth - If you can cut free of impressions that cling to the mind, free of the future and the past-can make yourself, as Empedocles says, 'a sphere rejoicing in its perfect stillness,' and concentrate on living what can be lived (which means the present) . . . then you can spend the time you have left in tranquility. And in kindness. And at peace with the spirit within you." (c) Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations".

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Priceless Stoic Insights From "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius

"A philosopher without clothes and one without books. "I have nothing to eat," says he, as he stands there half-naked, "but I subsist on the logos."And with nothing to read, I subsist on it too. Love the discipline you know, and let it support you. Entrust everything willingly to the gods and then make your way through life-no one's master and no one's slave. The age of Vespasian, for example. People doing the exact same things: marrying, raising children, getting sick, dying, waging war, throwing parties, doing business, farming, flattering, boasting, distrusting, plotting, hoping others will die, complaining about their own lives, falling in love, putting away money, seeking high office and power. And that life they led is nowhere to be found. Or the age of Trajan. The exact same things. And that life too - gone. Survey the records of other eras. And see how many others gave their all and soon died and decomposed into the elements that formed them. But most of all, run through the list of those you knew yourself. Those who worked in vain, who failed to do what they should have-what they should have remained fixed on and found satisfaction in. A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You're better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve. ... Everything fades so quickly, turns into legend, and soon oblivion covers it. And those are the ones who shone. ... What is "eternal" fame? Emptiness. Then what should we work for? Only this: proper understanding; unselfish action; truthful speech. A resolve to accept whatever happens as necessary and familiar, flowing like water from that same source and spring."

 "Soon you'll be ashes, or bones. A mere name, at most-and even that is just a sound, an echo. The things we want in life are empty, stale, and trivial. ...Why are you still here?" (c) Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations".

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🌿📜🌿 📜🌿 📜🌿 "If the storm should carry you away, let it carry off flesh, breath and all the rest, but not the mind. Which can’t be swept away. The lamp shines until it is put out, without losing its gleam, and yet in you it all gutters out so early — truth, justice, self-control.” © Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations". 🌿📜🌿 📜🌿 📜🌿

Reminded this excerpt from Epictetus:

 ‘I want to read Chrysippus’ treatise on the Liar.’ Is that your plan? Then go and jump in the lake and take your ridiculous plan with you. What good could come of it? Your unhappiness will persist the whole time you are reading it, and your anxiety will not abate a bit during a reading of the thing before an audience. Here’s how you behave: ‘Shall I read to you, brother, then you to me?’ ‘Man, it’s marvelous the way you write.’ ‘Well, it’s uncanny how you capture Xenophon’s style.’ ‘And you have caught Plato’s manner.’ ‘And you Antisthenes’!’ Then, having indulged each other in your fatuous fancies, you go back to your former habits: your desires and aversions are as they were, your impulses, designs and plans remain unchanged, you pray and care for the same old things. © Epictetus, “Discourses”.

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Be Like a Bee! - MARCUS AURELIUS SECRET to Being Unconsciously Kind!

We are sharing best excerpt from "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius on why it is important to be kind unconsciously:

"Some people, when they do someone a favor, are always looking for a chance to call it in. And some aren't, but they're still aware of it - still regard it as a debt. But others don't even do that. They're like a vine that produces grapes without looking for anything in return. A horse at the end of the race . . . A dog when the hunt is over . . . A bee with its honey stored . . . And a human being after helping others. They don't make a fuss about it. They just go on to something else, as the vine looks forward to bearing fruit again in season. We should be like that. Acting almost unconsciously." (c) Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations".

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