Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library Classics)

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Now you anticipate the child’s emergence from its mother’s womb; that is how you should await the hour when your soul will emerge from its compartment. With a profound understanding of human behavior, Marcus provides insights, wisdom, and practical guidance on everything from living in the world to coping with adversity to interacting with others.

Both are deserters: the man who breaks and runs, and the one who lets himself be alienated from his fellow humans. If you can cut free of impressions that cling to the mind, of future and past–then you can spend the time you have left in tranquility.So this is how a thoughtful person should await death: not with indifference, not with impatience, not with disdain but simply viewing it as one of the things that happens to us. Nothing like a typical novel, however, a daily review of a mixed variety of sections can be life changing if revisited over time.

This will be a drama in three acts, the length fixed by the power that directed yourcreation now directs your dissolution. a profound journey into the mind of Marcus Aurelius, and this translation makes his ancient wisdom feel strikingly modern and relevant. What is divinedeservesour respect because it is good; what is human deserves our affection because it is like us.It’s time you realize that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet. Now, no longer asleep, knowing they were only dreams, clear-headed again, treat everything around you as a dream.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. It is fortunate that this has happened and I’ve remained unharmed by it–not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. This requires not merely passiveacquiescence in what happens, but active cooperation with the world, with fate and, above all,with other human beings.Like the impresario ringing down the curtain on an actor: “But I’ve only gotten through three acts…! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In fresh and unencumbered English, Hays vividly conveys the spareness and compression of the original Greek text.