All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in a circle.
Marcus AureliusDo not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?' You would be ashamed to confess it! And then remind yourself that it is not the future or what has passed that afflicts you, but always the present, and the power of this is much diminished if you take it in isolation and call your mind to task if it thinks that it cannot stand up to it when taken on its own.
Marcus AureliusTags: inspirational-attitude
Book 8, #36Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?' You would be ashamed to confess it! And then remind yourself that it is not the future or what has passed that afflicts you, but always the present, and the power of this is much diminished if you take it in isolation and call your mind to task if it thinks that it cannot stand up to it when taken on its own.
Marcus AureliusIt never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
Marcus AureliusThat to expect bad people not to injure others is crazy. It's to ask the impossible. And to let them behave like that to other people but expect them to exempt you is arrogant--the act of a tyrant.
Marcus AureliusThis thing, what is it in itself, in its own constitution? What is its substance and material?
Marcus AureliusTags: hannibal-lecter meditations
Don’t let yourself forget how many doctors have died, furrowing their brows over how many deathbeds. How many astrologers, after pompous forecasts about others’ ends. How many philosophers, after endless disquisitions on death and immortality. How many warriors, after inflicting thousands of casualties themselves. How many tyrants, after abusing the power of life and death atrociously, as if they were themselves immortal.
How many whole cities have met their end: Helike, Pompeii, Herculaneum, and countless others.
And all the ones you know yourself, one after another. One who laid out another for burial, and was buried himself, and then the man who buried him - all in the same short space of time.
In short, know this: Human lives are brief and trivial. Yesterday a blob of semen; tomorrow embalming fluid, ash.
To pass through this brief life as nature demands. To give it up without complaint.
Like an olive that ripens and falls.
Praising its mother, thanking the tree it grew on.
Tags: philosophy spirituality
ثورو يقول : " أن تكون فيلسوفًا لا يعني أن يكون لديك أفكار حاذقة, ولا حتى أن تؤسِس مدرسة؛ بل أن تحب الحكمة بحيث تحيا وفقًا لإملاءاتها, حياة بساطة و إستقلال و سماحة و صدق. أن تكون فيلسوفًا هو أن تحلّ بعض مشكلات الحياة, لا حلًا نظريًا فقط, بل عمليًا أيضًا
Marcus Aureliusألم يأن لك أن تفهم أن هذا العالم الذي أنت جزءٌ منه و تفهم مدبّر هذا العالم الذي أنت فيضٌ منه؟ ألا تدرك ان هناك حدًا لعمرك, فإذا لم تستغله لتبديد غيومك فسوف يذهب العمر و سوف تذهب و لن تعود الفرصة مرة أخرى؟
Marcus Aureliusلا تُعلّق سعادتك على آرائ الآخرين فيك ولا تضع هناءك في أيديهم. ذلك " استرقاق " طوعي و " مصادرة " حياة و " نفي " خارج الذات. و ما كنت لترضي أيًّا من ذلك لو كنت تعرف إسمه الحقيقي.
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