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.
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.
Great quotes from the philosopher-emperor.
I'd like to share one more on anger from Meditations (Gregory Hay's translation) 12.26.