Meditations

“My whole life was changed by a copy of Mark Sprelius' Meditations that I bought for $9 on Amazon. It changed me personally and also professionally.”

“Marcus Aurelius in Meditations talks about olives falling right from the tree onto the ground, talks about them decaying and going back into the earth.”

“And then, of course, every leader should read Mark Shrullis' Meditations, The Private Thoughts of the Most Powerful Man in the World.”

“One of my favorite quotes from the stoics, it's in meditations. Mark Sreo says, remember, you always have the power to have no opinion.”

“And that's where the meditations come from. Yes. That is where this philosophy comes from. I don't think it would have been possible without that two halves of a whole dueling situation that they were both put in.”

“You could leave life right now, Marcus Relius writes in Meditations.”

“There are more than 80 references in the Meditations to the Common Good, a phrase that appears on nearly every page of the work.”

“Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 9, Verse 4”

“General Mattis, uh former Secretary of Defense, four-star general in the Marines, carries Marcus Aurelius's uh Meditations with him on 40 years of deployments.”

“because about 20 years ago i read this book marcus aurelius's meditations the private thoughts the most powerful man in the world”

“he actually addresses it in meditations he says consider that before long you'll be nobody just like hadrian”

“marcus realis talks about this repeatedly in meditations about how how history swallows us all up”

“in one of his famous passages and meditations which i i think about in regards to to sort of change and self-improvement marcus realis talks about being a gladiator at the games who's torn to pieces who's bloody and bleeding and losing”

“and we actually have an explicit mention of chariot racing in marcus realis's meditations on the first page of it actually he says he learns from his teacher not to support this side or that side in chariot racing”

“and so in meditations which he's writing here in this very building he's trying to stay humble he's trying to remind himself what's actually important”

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“this is why in meditations marcus really reminds himself that we always have the power to have no opinion that we don't have to let certain things upset us that we can ask ourselves”

“he lists a lot of names in meditations emperors who came before him famous poets and playwrights and power brokers”

“marx really says in meditations the rest doesn't matter it doesn't matter if you're cold or warm tired or well rested”

“Let me start by showing you a book that changed my life. So this is my copy of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, which was recommended to me when I was about 20 years old.”

“Merle Miller got his hands on Harry Truman's copy of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. And there are various passages where he wrote notes.”

“the first is from marcus aurelius meditations 11 3 what if someone despises me”

“Marcus Aurelius supposedly would read his philosophy or write in Meditations in his in his box. He was obligated to be there for work, but he didn't like it.”

“Marcus Aurelius, maybe he was riffing on that exact passage. He would talk about this in Meditations. He says like, "What are you going to beat the problems of tomorrow with?"”

“Marcus Aurelius opens meditations by thanking the teacher who taught him to read attentively, and who loaned him the copy of Epictetus that shaped the rest of his life.”

“And I was like, does Marx really talk about Pompeii at all in meditations?”

“And I just thought of the baths that Mark Street was talking about in meditations, that Seneca talks about in meditations, washing off the dust of earthly life.”

“You know, all Mark's realist stuff about, you know, you try to stay present. He says that your child is sick, but not that they might die of it.”

“and in the pages of his journal, he was writing notes to himself about controlling his temper, about getting up early, about quenching his desires, his urges, about being kind to people, about working hard.”

“And so in meditations, which he's writing here in this very building, he's trying to stay humble. He's trying to remind himself what's actually important. He's trying to avoid being stained.”

“You famously at the end of the episodes you talk about some books the guest would recommend to the audience and he brings up Marcus Aurelius' Meditations.”

“He actually addresses it in Meditations. He says, "Consider that before long you'll be nobody, just like Hadrian, just like Augustus."”

“This is one of the things Marcus talks about in meditations about how you want to really get inside people's minds and see things from their perspective.”

“There's a great line in meditations where he's saying like fight to be the person that philosophy tried to make you.”

“I remember I was 20 years old going through Mark's meditations, and this thing he said hit me, it hit me so hard.”

“There's a passage in Meditations where Marcus Aurelius is quoting Epictetus and I think pertains here to the road...”

“So I as far as I know, Marcus Aurelius never goes to space. Maybe maybe we but meditations? This is meditations.”

“Nobody likes getting up early, not even Marcus Aurelius. In Meditations, he talks about trying to get up early, and he has this fantastic conversation with himself.”

“In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius says, "Ask yourself in every instance, is this essential?" He says, "Cuz most of what we do and say isn't essential.”

“Marcus Aurelius also writes in Meditations about going directly to the seat of knowledge.”

“This is Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, the private thoughts of the most powerful man in the world. But there are secrets, there are lessons inside this book that went way over my head.”

“One of the things that Gregory Hays notes at the beginning of his translation of Meditations, which I missed on my first few readings.”

“It It is striking when you think about it that we can relate to Meditations at all. I mean, here's a book written 2,000 years ago...”

“In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius says, 'Life is warfare and a journey far from home.' And I guess I sort of thought he was being metaphorical...”

“David Hernández de la Fuente, he's this Spanish classicist, and I was reading this article where he was interviewed about the popularity of Meditations. He's translated it in Spanish, from Latin to Spanish.”

“And there's even a quote in Meditations where he talks about this. He says, you know, you want to fight to be the person that philosophy tried to make you.”

“And that's what Meditations is supposed to be. It's our imagination of what the most powerful man in the world who'd been trained in philosophy and rhetoric sitting down and trying to admonish himself...”

“You know, I I seem to remember my copy of Meditations just like arriving right away. You find it on the internet, you click it, and it comes.”

“It's important that we understand that a lot of what's in Meditations is not new. It's not even original. Marcus wouldn't have meant to imply otherwise.”

“A couple of years ago, Jerry Seinfeld got really into Marcus Aurelius. And there's a video of him holding his copy of our edition of Marcus Aurelius, which I really loved.”

“And and and that's why Marcus Aurelius' Meditations continues to resonate with people of all different walks of life.”

“And it makes some of the lines in Meditations feel all the more heart-wrenching. There's a a line in book seven where he's quoting a play from Euripides...”

“He writes at the beginning of meditations about her reverence for the divine, her generosity. He says her inability not only to do wrong, but her inability to even conceive of doing it.”

“It's easy to miss, but Marcus Aurelius is writing meditations in the midst of what's known as the Antonine Plague. A plague that lasts for a decade and a half...”

“One of my favorite passages in Meditations is this passage right at the beginning. And one of the things that Marcus writes is that he's he says he feels gratitude that he encountered Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, Dion, and Brutus...”

“The work is, can you do that even in the Can you do that even when stuff sucks? Can you do it even when things are hard? That's what Stoicism is about.”

“They are all the things that Marcus Aurelius lists at the beginning of book two of Meditations, right? They recline their seats on airplanes, they drive too slowly, they say stupid mean things on the internet.”

“And and I thought about Marcus Aurelius's line in Meditations. He says, 'Just that you do the right thing, the rest doesn't matter.'”

“I think about a line in Meditations. Marcus really says that we shouldn't do anything that requires walls or curtains.”

“Obviously, one of the paradoxes of Meditations is Marcus Aurelius is talking over and over again about how no one's going to remember him. Eternal fame is impossible and and worthless.”

“The a passage I've come to in Meditations over and over again, especially when, you know, I've been criticized, or maybe something I wanted to do wasn't received the way I I hoped it would...”

“And as it happens, Marcus Aurelius actually touches on this in Meditations. He says, 'Give yourself a gift, the present moment.'”

“And that's actually one of my favorite passages in Meditations where Marcus Aurelius is sort of like observing all these beautiful things in nature that actually aren't that beautiful.”

“I'm talking of course about Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, private thoughts of the emperor of Rome. And I love this book. I've read it more than a hundred times. Every time I read it, I get something new out of it.”

“A couple of years ago, I lost one of the most valuable things in the world to me. It was my copy of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. I was on a flight from London to Vancouver, and I left it in a seat pocket of an Air Canada flight.”

“In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius says, "You assemble your life action by action, step by step."”

“If you can cut free of the impressions that cling to the mind, Marcus Aurelius writes in Meditations, free of the future and the past, you can make yourself, he says, like a sphere rejoicing in its perfect stillness.”

“Marcus Aurelius in Meditations says it's about being free of the passions, but full of love.”

“"I know you want to get away from it all," Marcus Aurelius says in Meditations.”

“And I mean I think also that for Marcus Aureli is the you know the fact that we can read the meditations but they are not written as public facing documents right I mean we are really seeing him there in his private moments.”

“like um one of the one of the things Mark Seras thanks his philosophy teacher for at the beginning of meditations is he thanks him for for teaching him never to be satisfied with just getting the gist of things”

“So, the first part he he opens uh meditations with a list of acknowledgements from everything he learned from all his friends. But then he says this is a famous passage.”

“Marcus Aurelius spent time meditations, his famous book survives to us, totally unique from all other philosophy books.”

“After all, Marcus Reelis opens book five of meditations with what? This famous passage.”

“Markx talks about the common good like 80 times in meditations. He actually says that's what a good life is.”

“Marcus [music] really says in meditations let that determine what you do and say and think.”

“Stoicism is not there to help you be a better sociopath. On the contrary, it's designed to make you better, more caring, more empathetic, a better contributor to the thing that Mark Swiz talks about 80 times in meditations, [music] which is the common good.”

“A single book changed my life. I was 19 years old and someone recommended And this book, The Private Thoughts of the Emperor of Rome, hit me, 19 years old It put me on the journey that I am still on today.”

“There's two jokes in meditations. One is intentional, one isn't. And I think one one is one is offensive for like uh offensive reasons and then the other is offensive I think because of what it challenges.”

“What I think is interesting which has never been desensitized for me is the one that Marcus talks about in meditations which he's cribing from Epictitus. He says, "As you tuck your child in at night, say to yourself, they will not make it till the morning."”

“I saw that you were calling Aurelius your guy. And I was thinking, "Oh my god, I do the same thing with Teddy and Franklin and Lincoln." And I don't mean to be unifferial. It's just that I've lived with him for so long like you've lived with meditations.”

“And and one of the things that I love about that is there's a scene in it where uh he starts talking about Marcus Aurelius uh Truman does and and Merl asks him a question and and he goes and he gets his copy of meditations and he shows Merl Miller the the underlinings that he's he's done in meditations.”

“I've probably read meditations a hundred times or more. I was reading it just yesterday. And in today's video, I want to give you 100 lessons that I've gotten from my hundreds of reads of meditations over the last decade.”

“And that's what meditations was. Meditations was Marcus Aurelius writing notes to himself.”

“I remember once I was having a conversation with the great Robert Green and he showed me his copy of Mark Cerelius's meditations and he would write in the margins little AF”

“We could imagine that that's what Marus is doing in meditations, right? Like this is what's weird about meditations is that it's not a book for the reader. It's a book for the writer.”

“The meditations of Marcus Alreus is the first thing to read, right? That's probably the easiest, most accessible work of philosophy ever written and the most universal because it was his diary.”

“It also is why, as much as I've loved the Hayes translation and why we have this edition, it's why I've read the other translations. It's why I like the Robin Waterfeld annotated version, cuz he's bringing his perspective.”

“Since you're a lover of Marcus Rios I'll give you this quote. My favorite translation is the Hayes translation which he did for the modern library and this is what Marcus really says he learned from his brother Seis.”

“I was lucky enough actually to interview Gregory Hayes, the translator of these two books, way back in 2007. I just had this little blog and I sent him a note. And I asked him what his favorite passage in meditations was.”

“I I'll show you my copy of Meditations. Where is it? Look at this. I've had to tape the cover back on. It's filled with notes, different flags. I have marked almost every page of this book over the years.”

“But I again I think about this. I bought this copy of Meditations for I think like eight bucks on Amazon in 2006 and it's changed the course of my life.”

“Marcus really has a line in meditations that we don't think of meditations as being a plague book, but it is.”

“And what I think is interesting which has never been desensitized for me is the one that Marcus talks about in meditations which he's cribing from epic is he says as you tuck your child in at night say to yourself they will not make it till the morning.”

“and yet when i look at you know my copy of meditations i can see all these different pens and highlighters and stuff”

“there's a passage in meditations remarks really talks about holding the reins in his non-dominant hand”

“And then um um Marcus Aurelius starts off meditations with, you know, the people whose lives he's tried to learn from.”

“These things that are sort of accidental byproducts like even meditations.”

“There's a thing in meditations where Marcus realist is saying that like you adaptability is this is is the ability to say oh that's just what I was looking for right and you think about how a a person who because of a market strategy because of a career strategy because of like how they want to be they need”

“Well, there's a passage in Marxist's meditations where he goes, "Vespacian."”

“I mean, that's what's so Mark's meditations is so fascinating because here you have this guy fundamentally exempted now from all the rules of society.”

“and and and Marcus really says so it would it it would take an idiot to feel angry at any of this as if any of it lasts right”

“i think about something that Mark talks about in meditations where he goes like he was a person who had these chronic health issues”

“we have meditations this is the book that he writes to himself his private Journal this is a book actually that General Mattis carries with him on 40 Years of deployments but Marcus writes in meditations this prescription for us that we can use in moments of adversity”

“or when you are when you are saying hey check out this book meditations or senica or one of the stoks”

“have you read Mark's meditations uh you know what book one about I'm not this isn't this isn't a trick question fun no I I feel like I read some of it in a class where I didn't fully read it which is so embarrassing so book book one of meditations is just called debts and lessons”

“well that's what I think is so weird about meditations right this this should be a weird this should be an unreadable book right you have the most powerful guy in the world 2,000 years ago worshiped as a god his life is incomprehensibly UNF ably distant from ours and every night he would write these little notes to himself”

“I bought Mark real est's meditations This specific translation came to me on Amazon and I read and I remember just like this is the most amazing thing”

“one of my favorite passages in meditations is where Mark sort of lists a bunch of great conquerors and Generals uh and then he lists a bunch of philosophers and I think he ends with Socrates and he says ultimately Socrates is the greater because his mind was his own”

“there's a line in in Mark re's meditations he's thanking one of his mentors he says for for did you say mark aelius I did”

“and I think also the skill um I see this as a through line in in Marx Real's meditations his ability to find beauty in ordinary things”

“In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius wrote that when you tuck your child in at night, remind yourself they might not survive until morning.”

“There’s certainly a part of it, but there's that famous passage in Meditations where he says, 'The impediment to action advances action; what stands in the way becomes the way.'”

“choices between two things that you don't like in meditations Mark cus writes about how we can't go around expecting Plato's Republic”

“and actually as it happens in meditations at the beginning of meditations Mark RS talks a lot about what he learned from his stepfather antoninus”

“Which is a thing so Marcus realiz in his meditations he says”

“Stillness is the key was my first book to hit the New York Times with solist and it”

“the other side of momentto Mory like the part where Markus talks about it specifically in meditations which I've always been struck by and it struck me before I had kids and a lot more after he he says that you know try to do this as you're tucking your kids in at night”

“you could argue that Marcus aurelius's meditations one of its primary purposes was Marcus Aurelius meditating against and trying to counteract the very real ego that would creep in for having so much incredible power and fame and influence”

“this is why that famous passage in Mark realus is so important He opens book five in meditations with the debate”

“Like, you look you can look at sales of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations and like, you know, they sort of flat and then The Obstacle Is the Way comes out and they spike a little bit over the intervening years and then in 2020 they just like go through the roof.”

“well Marcus re talks about that in meditations he says the best revenge is to not be like that”

“And speaking of books, just 'cause I know he's a through line in the movie, one of the characters quotes him a few times. What's your relationship with Marcus Aurelius's 'Meditations'?”

“I go to the Shelf to pull down a a copy of of meditation I was going to get something out of it and I found a receipt inside and I learned in that moment that my wife had went and bought herself a copy from Barnes & Noble”

“Well, uh one of my favorite quotes in in Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, he says, you know, 'Ambition is tying your success to what other people say and do.' So, like, I want to be consul or I want to be senator, so I got to get these people to vote for me. I want to be a best-selling author, I”

“in meditations he says it's fortunate that this happened to you he says”

“in meditations Marcus aelia says remember tolerant with others strict with yourself”

“you're being too idealistic in meditations Mark seris writes to himself”

“this is the harsh truth that Markus realus opens meditations with says”

“Mark Rus reminds himself in meditations he says”

“Markus in meditations he quote a line from a lost play by The playright Ides”

“We could imagine that that's what Marcus Aurelius is doing in his meditations. What's weird about meditations is that it's not a book for the reader; it's a book for the writer.”

“that's what Mark cus is doing in meditations right like this is what's weird about meditations is that it's not a book for the reader it's a book for the writer”

“Mark said when you do someone a good turn and they receive it, don't ask for recognition.”

“when i read meditations for the first time i was 19 i was sitting in my college apartment and i was just like not only have i never read anything like this i've never even heard of anything like this”

“i like that there's a gregory hayes translation for the modern library which i think is the most like lyrical and beautiful of all of them”

“and so marcus says uh in meditations that ambition is tying your well-being to what other people say or do”

“this is my favorite translation of meditations i don't know if this is the one you read but i would read this”

“And there there's this sense that Marcelius is depressed and dark and nihilistic and that meditations is a dark book. But like I think when you read things like that, you see that he wasn't.”

“And so there's something he he's writing specifically to himself, but it somehow becomes universal. Like there's something about meditations which on the one hand should be totally unrelatable.”

“And I just like I feel like one of the formative lucky breaks of my life is that when I went on Amazon in 2006 to buy meditations that I got the Haye translation instead of some other one.”

“most of where like Marcus R talks about Justice like literally dozens of times yeah in meditations”

“Most of where like Marcus Aurelius talks about Justice, like literally dozens of times in Meditations, um, he also talks about doing the right thing dozens of times in Meditations and the common good.”

“Yeah, Marcus really has this quote in Meditations where he says, uh, the fruit of this life is good character and acts for the common good.”

“there's a copy of his medit of his there's his copy of meditations is there with his underlines of like these things”

“you know you know Marcus reis's meditations I mean they're all kind of a bunch of aphorisms”

“in meditations there's a passage where Marcus realizes doing exactly that”

“the meditations of Marcus ra is the first thing to read right it's probably the easiest most accessible work of philosophy ever written”

“i think one something that struck me as i'm reading meditations is Marcus really thanks his philosophy teacher rusticus”

“one something that struck me as I'm reading meditations is Marcus really thanks his philosophy teacher”

“That's one of the things I love to do with Meditations is I'll take a line that I love, and I'll go, 'I want to look at five translations.' In different eras.”

“and he becomes the person that you read about in the pages of Meditations, right?”

“That's something that Marcus Aurelius writes to himself in Meditations. He goes, how will you meet the problems of tomorrow? He says, with the same weapons you met them with today.”

“but I I found the more I've thought about markus's meditations the more I am in awe of it right because in one sense this the book should be inaccessible and incomprehensible to us”

“so I got meditations Amazon Prime didn't exist so like I had to buy some other books”

“you and I were both struck by the fact that Markus the most powerful man on the world he's writing this private journal to himself and he opens it with all the things that other people did for him that he learned from them it's this”

“it's funny in meditations there's a passage where Marcus Aus is like doing exactly that”

“there's probably no theme that Marcus talks about in meditations more than change so I'll read you some and we'll Riff on them”

“There's probably no theme that Marcus talks about in Meditations more than change. So I'll read you some passages, and we'll riff on them.”

“I just searched change and meditations to pull them all up because I knew there's so many”

“when you read meditations is like there's very little in here that is not imminently relatable and uh has its analoges to our own time”

“Well, the idea of the obstacle is the way it comes to us. Mark's really sort of jots this passage down in meditations. He says the impediment to action advances action.”

“Well, for the Stoics, it was writing and Mark Surrealist's meditations was not intended as a publishable philosophical work. That was his philosophical practice that happened to just not be destroyed.”

“you know there's this passage in meditation that I think hit me”

“one of the beautiful lines in meditations Marx realists is um remember tolerant with others strict with yourself”

“this is what Marcus realist is doing in meditations he's having a conversation with himself the most powerful man in the world”

“like on its face Marcus realizes meditations should be inaccessible impractical incomprehensible”

“yeah do you I have the paperback of the Gregory Hayes translation which is the one that I love and uh just the more modern translation”

“I think about that obviously the book that's influenced my life the most is Marx realizes meditations”

“And like enlightenment is not this state that you reach. And like enlightenment is not this state that you reach. And like when you when you think about what Marcus Aurelius's meditations is as a work of literature, it was never intended to be published.”

“There's some irony in that Marcus Aurelius's book is called 'Meditations,' but he's not doing any meditating in the sense that we understand it now. Right?”

“the fifth book the medications of marcus aurelius”

“one of the things one of the reasons I think meditations by Mark cerealis is this totally unique philosophy book is that he wasn't writing a philosophy book”

“one of the things one of the reasons I think meditations by Mark cerealis is this totally unique philosophy book is that he wasn't writing a philosophy book he was writing notes to himself about what he thought”

“And also, I think like I've talked about this before, but one of the reasons I think Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is this totally unique philosophy book is that he wasn't writing a philosophy book. He was writing notes to himself about what he thought, and in that way the specific is actually more universal.”

“his private thoughts come to us in the form of meditations”

“and in fact if you read meditations multiple times he talks about struggling to get out of bed in the morning”

“one of my favorite examples of marcus really's humor is he jokes in meditations about a man so rich he had nowhere to in his house”

“in meditations marcus really says life is warfare and a journey far from home”

“junius rusticus this is marcus riley's philosophy teacher hands him a copy of meditations”

“but even the last pages of meditations point at this as well he says you've lived your life as a great citizen in a great city 500 years or a hundred”

“he writes in meditations that he wants to never be swayed by Pleasure or pain he wants to be purposeful when an action free from dishonesty or dissimulation”

“and there's another passage in meditation that Echoes of Antonia Sparks really says concentrate every moment like a Roman right it says concentrate on the task in front of you like it's the most important thing in your life like it's the last thing you're doing in your life”

“and then in meditations Marcus realiz so you can imagine he the emperor of Rome he's having to think about this exact thing and he says you know the question you have to ask yourself in every moment is is this essential”

“yes like one of the most beautiful passages and meditations again it's this PRI you have the private Journal of the emperor of Rome and and he's saying be careful not to be Caesar fied you can easily be dyed purple”

“in meditations Marx real estate is ask yourself at every moment is this task essential”

“In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius asks yourself at every moment, is this task essential?”

“Well, you know, one of my favorite passages in Meditations is Marcus Aurelius clearly sitting next to someone with BO and he's like trying to decide whether he should say something or whether he just has to put up with it.”

“Sure, no, I mean that’s what’s so incredible about what Marcus manages to do in Meditations.”

“Well, that's what's so remarkable about that first uh chapter of Meditations, which I I had someone look, it's almost 10% of the book, like by word count. Is that they would have never seen it. So, it's so beautifully written and so kind and so all-encompassing.”

“there's a a line in meditations he's he's think he's thanking uh someone at the beginning of it”

“and yet he writes in meditations perhaps one of the greatest books ever written he says it's unfortunate that this happened and he catches himself...”

“And he writes in meditations not to be ashamed to ask for help.”

“Marcus writes quite beautifully about his mother at the beginning of meditations here actually let me grab it because it might be people might like it”

“and yet it appears almost nowhere in meditations there's like one or two sort of offhanded mentions and it's really about how um no one will remember anyone from Hadrian's core”

“it's later in meditations but there's like two back-to-back entries where Marcus is clearly talking about having he talked talks about you know wanting children and old age you reach for your children and they're not there anymore”

“but there's a a line in meditations where Mark cerealis talks about how there's two types of plagues there's the one that can destroy your life and the one that can destroy your character”

“Marcus realis refers to the common good like 40 times in his meditations and is my favorite line says what's bad for the hive is bad for the bee”

“i'm ryan holiday and i feel so blessed that 15 years ago i randomly got the right translation of marcus surrealis at the right time in my life”

“you know mark surrealist talks in meditations more than 80 times about the common good”

“I don't know if you've ever read Marx realis meditations but what's surreal about this work uh compared against essentially all other works of ancient philosophy is that a normal person can just sit down and read it and make sense of what he's talking about because Marcus Aurelius was writing a simple diary to himself right”

“what i think is one of the best passages in all of meditations but certainly the most illustrative marcus really says the fruit of this life is good character and acts for the common good”

“so i've been on this journey studying marcus aurelius since i first read meditations and it changed my life”

“mark sherlos talks about this in meditations he says i escaped anxiety”

“marx really didn't like people i mean you can't read meditations and not see this”

“one of the criticisms of Marcus aurelius's meditations by academics who don't get this is that it's kind of repetitive it's repetitive sure”

“what's really interesting about philosophy is that that's what Marcus aurelius's meditations was it's one of the few philosophical books that we have that wasn't published as a book”

“i was i was actually just rereading a new translation of marcus realist for an interview i'm doing next week”

“actually one of my favorite marx realist passages is when he's sort of talking about the ordinary beauty of life in meditations”

“This is my now 15-year-old copy of Meditations. I've had to re-tape the cover on because I I've read it so many times. But But, you know, you read Meditations and it just it it hit me it hit me like a million bricks.”

“In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius talks about how people who love what they do wear themselves down doing it. You have to love what you do; I love writing, clearly you love football.”

“One of my favorite passages in Meditations, Marcus and what I love about Meditations is you have the most powerful man in the world writing to himself.”

“he's the emperor of rome and every night he practices stoic philosophy he sits down and he writes notes to himself about how to be a better person and that that work survives to us in a in a book called meditations and i was introduced to meditations i was about 19 years old”

“It's actually, Marcus Aurelius talks about this in meditations. He says, like, "Oh, the anxiety," he says, "I escaped anxiety."”

“what you see in a book like meditations is Mark celus the the most powerful man in the world struggling willing himself to get better at choosing”

“marcus realists in meditations is working through stuff all the time”

“sometimes when i need a pick-me-up i think of one that mark cyrillis wrote to himself in meditations”

“if you don't have to read meditations”

“so marcus realized we understand has like an extremely bad stomach ailment we don't know what it is um but there's some some evidence that he was like prescribed opium for it it was so serious right”

“but marcus really says this line in the beginning of meditations where he goes the key is to be free of passion but full of love”

“no so so like i think marcus realizes such an interesting example of this so he writes meditations but he's not writing it for anyone”

“and then and and you see Marcus Aurelius writes the same quoting Epictetus writes it in Meditations”

“should we be surprised that he talks openly in meditations about his anxiety about losing his temper that he sometimes felt grinded down exhausted by life of course he did”

“and he actually writes in meditations in this time he says look don't be overwhelmed by the crush of the problem as a whole he says look at it for what it is”

“Marcus Aurelius talks about you know he opens book to of meditations with a sort of a meditation on how awful some of the people he's gonna meet today”

“I would just think about the Stokes and that they never used the word meditations but when Marcus Aurelius calls his book penetrations or that's the name”

“he thanks him at the front of meditations you can look at that”

“Right. And when Marcus Aurelius uh participated in that, I'm most certain that that flavored some of his writings, particularly meditations, because there's a lot of the stuff in there that seems very psychedelically inspired.”

“I recently read meditations again uh a couple of months ago well I listened to it in the sauna”

“uh meditations by Marcus Aurelio wild book that's historical today that's sick”

“and he was striving to do better in his own personal life and that was what meditations was all about his book”

“he wrote 12 books of the meditations in coin greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement”

“marus aelius meditations is like still to this day one of the most interesting books on philosophy and the way a guy lives his life ever”

“marcus aurelius yeah marcus yeah marcus aurelius is uh meditations i'm in the middle of that right now”

“meditations I don't believe was ever written with the intent of it being distributed... you read meditations today like oh this is a guide book to how to live your life in a better way”

“I've been listening to Marcus aurelius's meditations in the sauna recently that's that's amazing you listen to this dude that lived 2 thousand [ __ ] years ago and he's just spitting knowledge”

“Um and so there's some speculation even that that's where some of the weird, kind of beautiful, mystic passages of Meditations come from is he's like on opium.”

“It is now incumbent upon me as a parent to not only do the best that I can, but make sure that the best that I am giving Traveler is the best for him, not the best for me, and what systems that I was given will work, and what systems I have the ability to— I was telling a”

“he's like here's a book he showed it to me on Amazon and he goes it's 4.99 it's the blue Dover Thrift Edition he was like this is the George S long translations the one that'll retain kind of the king james-ness of it which you will vibe with”

“he showed it to me on Amazon and he goes it's 4.99 it's the blue Dover Thrift Edition he was like this is the George S long translations the one that'll retain kind of the king james-ness of it which you will vibe with”

“Maybe it's Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, one of my favorite books of all time.”

“Maybe it's Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. One of my favorite books of all time.”

“We often want to read a hundred books when we should master three, maybe Jobs's biography by Walter Isaacson, or 'The Prophet' by Kahlil Gibran, or 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius, one of my favorite books. Minimizing our focus can be incredibly powerful; build your life around a few crucial things.”

“Marcus Aurelius in the Roman Empire is an example that, you know, reading Meditations is also just an insight into the mind of a man who's to himself”

“I'm reading next week tune in Marcus Aurelius meditations”

“So I used to have meditations and I would read that and I would, you know, sometimes I don't have a ton of time to sit and meditate on it.”

“And things like this, meditations, you know, stoicism in general, has helped me get in touch with my inner knowing that I felt or that I feel now has always been there.”

“I had always operated and this is what I learned about myself through reading, you know, meditations. Marcus Aurelius, Epictitus I'm a huge fan of.”

“I do. I actually brought my daily stroke book because um whether you like it or not, you're going to sign it. Um so I I used to have meditations um and I would read that”

“and went back to reading you know when I was a kid I read heavily you know and uh got back went back to reading poetry and Marcus aurelus and stuff and just kind of got some of my perspective back”

“And, uh, got back, went back to reading poetry and Marcus Aurelius and stuff and just kind of got some of my perspective back.”

“if you study the Book of Proverbs in the Bible okay if you study meditations by Marcus aurelus and you study these wisdom writings there's much more of the wisdom writings that are telling you things not to do then are telling you need to do this to be wise”

“The practice of stepping back and thinking can provide insights that profoundly impact one's life, as seen by the timeless relevance of Aurelius' 'Meditations'.”

“Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. I have given that away to to a number of people.”

“Get the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, who, by the way, a world historical figure because he was a Roman emperor.”

“meditations we talked about earlier marcus aurelius is another really really great one”

“like marcus aurelius i would say one big fan of meditations um you know stoic philosophy”

“having them read aristotle having them read i mean the stoics uh um you know after going through some really kind of irritating committee work as i got out of my marcus aurelius um into meditations you know the stoic emperor of rome and uh there's a lot of wisdom in there”

“Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. And I'm like, Where the hell have I been or where's that book? Get into podcasting and immediately the Stoics. I'm telling you, can't can't be can't be a podcaster and not get into the Stoics. How could you not?”

“It's why you should read the Meditations because this is not just some dry whatever talking to himself in a culture”

“you pick up the book meditations you're like this is like mandatory reading for anybody”

“and like in the letters to lasilius for example and his other writings you know you wouldn't really imagine that he was a Nero's right-hand man”

“so when Marcus heaps praise and antoninus Pious and says nothing which was a pro would be a profound insult we would be very serious”

“and then he says in the meditations again really cryptically something about um antoninus Pius doing away with pedaraste like and he kind of Praises him for that and he says he Praises antoninus for um bringing an end to pair”

“so one of them is then you notice he says never say anything well never say I'll do anything that requires walls or curtains he says in the meditation”

“Scholars immediately when well hang on a minute that kind of looks like what the meditations is like he's taking these wisdoms that you know because it's quite repetitive right why is he saying the same thing over and over again in different words”

“he actually literally says at one point that it's the most important factor he mentions Justice or natural affection or cosmopolitanism or something something along those lines that something that has to do with our interpersonal relationships and our relationship with society and almost every page of the meditations like it's the main theme really of the the book”

“um other than that he's when he talks about overcoming anger feeling love overcoming alienation he's talking about people in general not just Roman subjects or citizens”

“yeah it's called well the earliest manuscript was headed to himself”

“he says uh in the meditations that he was worried he was going to lose his temper a few times and do something that he'd regret”

“well so then if you read the meditations marcus says in it things like never do anything that requires walls or curtains”

“Yeah, I mean, Marcus Aurelius's book is called Meditations. It's a different form of meditation”

“yeah I mean Marx Real's book is called meditations it's a different form of meditation”

“The accidental byproduct of that is this book, 'Meditations', which you and I are reading 2,000 years later. He said that posthumous fame was impossible and worthless, and he's accidentally seeking it—not because of his accomplishments on the battlefield or his policies as emperor, but because of this private and singular act.”

“Marcus Aurelius wrote in his Meditations, "You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."”

“In Meditations, he writes that he told himself each morning he would encounter difficult people and difficult circumstances.”

“oh this is meditations by marcus aurelius”

“uh it was really you know, when I was working on MTV, uh I picked up meditations and have never put it down.”

“Well, as you pointed out, I love the beginning where he is thanking people. And I love that he thanks you the gratitude and he and he thanks his mother for her compassion and generosity and the fact that like Marcus Aurelius was trying to teach himself humility and he was sleeping on the floor until she was like, "No,”

“I mean but and the thing is is it's been around years when you look at like an you know Marcus Aurelius meditations or stoic philosophy and they're talking about you know dialogue being both external in turn also the the conversations that go on inside your own head are just as important as the conversations you would have with”

“it's so it's this and again like I said Marcus Aurelius meditations stoic philosophy that the conversations you have in your own head are just as powerful with other people”

“It made me think of I don't know if you've heard people talk about uh meditations by Marcus Aurelius, of course.”

“I like Ryan Holidayiday stuff when he wrote kind of trust me I'm lying but then you got very into stoic kind of philosophy you read like meditations and stuff like that”

“and understand that marcus aurelius's meditations where you need to have like someone or someone along for the ride who can actually explain what's going on”

“but it's funny in meditations there's a passage where Marcus to realize is like doing exactly that he's like I know you think you want to get away from it all yeah like in the country or the beach or whatever and he's like but actually whatever you need is inside of you right now it's like you can Retreat”

“Part of it, but Meditations, I don't believe, was ever written with the intent of it being distributed.”

“I have one of your books by the way really yeah oh that's incredible for me Daniel gave you to me for Christmas it was a youo yeah”

“Copies of marcus aurelius's meditations and paperback were sold out at the beginning of 2020.”

“I even reread meditations during co and even that you know it's you really got to take your time.”

“copies of marcus aurelius's meditations and paperback were sold out at the beginning of 2020.”

“I mean you read somebody like Marcus Aurelius what he's really talking about is there like he is one of the most emotionally Adept writers that I've ever come across”

“was it Marcus Aurelius who said the whole universe is change in life itself is but what we deem it I think it was”

“I mean, he's amazing. I I'm I'm so glad. I can't believe that I haven't read meditations in so long.”

“i'm in the middle of uh reading uh meditations while i'm listening to the audiobook of meditations by marcus”

“Yeah, there's a passage in Marcus's Meditations where he says, you know, as you tuck your child in at night, you should say to yourself, they will not survive to the morning. And he's like meditating on the loss that the most precious thing in the world to you…”

“Maybe they can't afford to buy a 30-dollar book from Simon & Schuster on the Stoics, and/or Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations."”

“And then eventually I ended up it was super cliche but ended up reading meditations by Marcus Reelis and I was like wow like this is this is incredible.”

“like when you read meditations you're like this it's not good for a person to be in this position”

“Yeah, it's a little sad because you read about—and the only reason I even know about these folks like Emperor Nero or whatever is because of Ryan Holiday writing books about stoicism, you know and in that having a resurgence.”

“or Marcus Aurelius meditations and and Senecas writings yeah that's that's amazed”

“marcus aurelius is uh meditations i'm in the middle of that right now”

“I've been thinking a lot in preparing to come here. Um thinking a lot about Marcus obviously, right?”

“I'm here in Rome and I'm I'm starting to read I'm like well I get stoic you just don't feel anything you know supposed to allow any emotion to come up you just you and then suddenly you're getting into it and you're like oh that's not it at all”

“and like so there's this passage at the beginning of meditations where Mark's realistic goes like today you're going to meet people who like suck and are dishonest and shitty and all he lists all this stuff he's basically saying”

“i want to take my i'll get some marcus aurelius thing it's like you know i guess the trick to life is figuring out what's in our control and what's not”

“there's some irony in that Marx realis's book is called meditations but he's not doing any meditating in the sense that we understand it now”

“so I go I buy Meditations by Marcus Aurelius I sit down I start to read it and I'm sort of just trying to understand what the heck is this philosophy”

“and this year got Marcus Aurelius's book on stoicism and and so this is perfect now you're here.”

“But my favorite part about meditations as a historical document is the way that it accidentally captures some things that have been lost.”

“I found this book u meditations by Marco Surelius, which I think was quite formative for how you see things in some respects and generally stoicism.”

“he said many things if you read his the medit the meditations chatty kind of”

“and this is also very reminiscent of Marcus Aurelius and meditations of course”

“That's always what I've liked the most about Marcus Aurelius' meditations; he's talking to himself, but if he was really just talking to himself, would he have written it down?”

“I went and I read this past week I read the meditations.”

“other things that people are sort of bowing themselves at the church of and i think is a good thing is the church of marcus aurelius copies of meditation sold out at the beginning of 2020”

“marcus aurelius book meditations is really really interesting because it's almost 2 000 years old”

“what if I have one book If it's meditations Or if if if it's some ancient Chinese text if if we're looking at some Lau or something you think well that one thing answers everything”

“uh Marcus Aurelius the Roman Emperor got a little closer with his meditations because he did talk about things like here's how I'd like to uh I'd like to develop these character traits and cultivate these things in my life”

“I'm reading his … meditations I just gotta I ordered a leather-bound copy of that and I think they had to actually make it in India because it took me like two months to get from Amazon”

“The Mind adapts and converts to its own purposes The obstacle to our acting what stands in the way becomes the way meditations 520 keep fighting”

“shredkowski says the Mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting what stands in the way becomes the way meditations 520 Keep fighting man that's really good all right I'm a big Marcus Aurelius fan”

“marcus aurelius's uh meditations”

“people are running on your prices are running out of copies or Marcus Aurelius meditations and and Senecas writings”

“if you Marcus Aurelius meditations have existed for thousands of years Why do you think people still read them”