Great quotes from the philosopher-emperor.

I'd like to share one more on anger from Meditations (Gregory Hay's translation) 12.26.

To be angry at something means you’ve forgotten:

That everything that happens is natural.

That the responsibility is theirs, not yours.

And further …

That whatever happens has always happened, and always will, and is happening at this very moment, everywhere. Just like this.

What links one human being to all humans: not blood, or birth, but mind.

And …

That an individual’s mind is God and of God.

That nothing belongs to anyone. Children, body, life itself-all of them come from that same source.

That it’s all how you choose to see things.

That the present is all we have to live in. Or to lose.