Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library Classics)

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Externalthings are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them… And if it’s that you’re not doingsomethingyou think you should be, why not just do it? 8.47 Not to be driven this way and that, but to always behave with justice and to see things as they are. 4.22 Tim Ferriss Show – Naval Ravikant on Happiness, Reducing Anxiety, Crypto Stablecoins, and Crypto Strategy (#473) And for a human being to feel stress is normal–if he’s living a normal human life. And if it’s normal, how can it be bad? 6.33 What is divinedeservesour respect because it is good; what is human deserves our affection because it is like us. 2.13

It’s unfortunate that this has happened. No. It is fortunate that this has happened and I’ve remained unharmed by it–not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. 4.49And to those who complain and try to obstruct and thwart things–they help as much as anyone. The world needs them as well. 6.42

Everything you’re trying to reach–by taking the long way round–you could have right now, this moment. If you’d only stop thwarting your own attempts. If you’d only let go of the past, entrust the future to God, and guide the present towards reverence and justice. 12.1 Objectivejudgment now at this very moment. Unselfish action, now at this very moment. Willing acceptance, now at this very moment. Of all external events. That’s all you need. 9.6

It would be wrong for anything to stand between you and attaining goodness — as a rational being and a citizen. 3.6 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 The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the quality of your thoughts. 5.16