Meditations - by Marcus Aurelius - translation by C Scot Hicks and David V Hicks ISBN: Date read: 2012-02-04 How strongly I recommend it: 6/10 (See, for more.) Go to the for details and reviews. A true classic, filled with stoic wisdom mostly about being your best rational self, doing good for its own sake, and not letting other people upset you. My notes INTRODUCTION: (by translators, not Aurelius) We need to be reminded more often than informed.
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Work intelligently with what is given - not wasting time fantasizing about flawless people and perfect choices. Marcus never did anything, not even the smallest thing, as if he considered it unimportant. He took a detailed interest in all matters.
Marcus regarded obstacles as opportunities for the exercise of reason. Guard the mind from false opinions and harmful desires. If we fail to exercise self-censorship and judgement, then we are the ad-man's dream, and our lives our not our own. Good life begins in the mind, but one cannot realize the good life cut off from a good society. BOOK TWO: Remember how long you have procrastinated, and how consistently you have failed to put to good use your suspended sentence.
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. Take the time to concentrate your mind in the acquisition of some new and useful knowledge - and stop it from flittering about. Nothing is more pathetic than feverishly circling the earth and 'probing into its depths', to guess what other people are thinking, while all the time failing to realize that one only needs to attend to the inner spirit, and to serve it with unswerving devotion. Even the slightest act should have some end in mind. BOOK THREE: Purge your mind of aimless and idle thoughts. Show the world a simple and kindly man, a good neighbor, indifferent to sensual pleasures and luxuries, untouched by jealousy, envy, and mistrust.
Neither popularity, nor wealth, nor power, nor the pleasures of the flesh should compete in your affection for the good that flows from reason and neighborliness. If it's to the advantage of your reasonable self, seize hold of it. If it's merely to the advantage of your animal self, admit it and don't pretend it's more than that. Take no detours from the high road of reason and social responsibility. Nothing produces greatness of mind like the habit of examining methodically and honestly everything we enounter in this life, and of determining its place in the order of things, its intended use, its value to the whole universe, and its worth to man in his role as citizen. Pursue the matter at hand along the straight path of reason, advancing with intensity, vigor, and grace, and without being distracted along the way. Just as surgeons keep their scalpels handy, keep your principles with you at all times, ready to delve into anything.
Stop jumping off the track. (You don't have time to do uncrucial things you've collected for your old age.) Throw off vain hope and sprint to the finish. Come to your own aid while there's still time. BOOK FOUR: Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job. Nowhere is there a vacation home more private and peaceful than in one's own mind. Take this vacation and charge your spirit, but not beyond what is necessary to send you back to your work free of anxiety and full of vigor and good cheer.
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