- If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it. And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgment now.
- A cucumber is bitter. Throw it away. There are briars in the road. Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add, "And why were such things made in the world?"
- Let opinion be taken away, and no man will think himself wronged. If no man shall think himself wronged, then is there no more any such thing as wrong.
- (...) As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad , and of the sort of society they frequent; and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes has no value for him.
- Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.
- Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.
http://classics.mit.edu//Antoninus/meditations.mb.txt
and the greek version for joy!
http://zipper.paco.net/~yury/LL/aurel.html.utf8
2 comments:
A Greek! But of course.
See, there are no original thoughts-we just rehash it for the next generation.
Of course if I were in a darker mood I would say "we are STILL trying to get the same damn lesson! How long is it gonna take us!!!"
But I'm not there today! Today I say how cool is that which he says! Eh!
Right on, The Four Agreements in Greek.
And I'm thinking cool and also thinking we are almost there, we are almost there.
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