Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library Classics)

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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. 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. 9.3 The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what you do. 4.18 Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? Can any process take place without something being changed? 7.18

To live a good life: We have the potential for it If we can learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference. 11.16 A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you’re in the same room with him, you know it. 11.15The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the quality of your thoughts. 5.16

The discipline of perception requires that we maintain absolute objectivity of thought: that we see things dispassionately for what they are. To move from one unselfish action to another with God in mind. Only there, delight and stillness. 6.7

It’s the pursuit of these things, and your attempts to avoid them, that leave your mind in such turmoil. And yet they aren’t seeking you out; you are the one seeking them.Suspendjudgmentabout them. And at once they will lie still, and you will be freed from fleeing and pursuing. 11.11 An athlete in the greatest of all contests — the struggle not to beoverwhelmedby anything that happens. 3.4 It never ceases toamazeme: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own. 12.4