Meditations (Marcus Aurelius, 1997)

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A record of the last 5 great kings. Many ancient references and words not so widely used now; wisdom come from all different aspects and not possible to achieve without Internet nowadays. Understand through all the books to have a deeper meditation state. Rated: 9.5/10

Book 1

  • Paroxysms: sudden attack
  • Be grateful
  • Sordid: dirty or squalid (extremely dirty)
  • Philosophy conduct of a man


Book 2

  • Existence


Book 3

  • Don’t waste life into meaningless things, life is slowly moving to the end
  • Physicians always have their instruments and knives ready for cases which suddenly require their skill
  • Pure, tranquil, ready to depart


Book 4

  • Our perturbations come only from the opinion which is within 
  • Harmonise


Book 5

  • Do good without returns
  • Parallel universe is formed from someone attained enlightenment, we are living on other’s world


Book 6

  • The best way of avening thyself is not to become like the wrongdoer
  • Coming of Christ may be just release of “the force” so lower level attainment people can also ascend
  • Sun do not undertake the work of the rain yet work together to the same end
  • Man live according to their own nature, do not hinder them


Book 7

  • Kinsmen still love one another when they do wrong
  • Define badness


Book 8

  • What is the reason for things to be in one form or any good for it to be in another?
  • Acquiesce: accepting without protest
  • Why hold on to something is bad for you?


Book 9

  • He who acts unjustly acts impiously
  • He who lies intentionally is as guilty and often find fault with the universal nature
  • Man, god and the universe produce fruit
  • Pray for yourself to accept and change than others


Book 10

  • If you didn’t correct a man, you as as guilty as his wrongdoings
  • Understand things in its natural flow like fire go up and stone go down
  • What happen in the end?


Book 11

  • A branch cut off from the adjacent branch must of necessity be cut off from the whole tree also. So too a man when he is separated from another man has fallen off from the whole social community
  • Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another


Book 12

  • Every man’s intelligence is a god, and is an efflux of the deity
  • You can’t see God like you can’t see your own soul, yet you honour and vnerate it
  • Doing good in the right reason, done things to the right conformation, comtemplates the world for a longer or shorter time - he is as good as dead


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