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To follow the logos in all things is to be relaxed and energetic, joyful and serious at once. 10.12 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 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
This requires not merely passiveacquiescence in what happens, but active cooperation with the world, with fate and, above all,with other human beings. We were made, Marcus tells us over and over, not for ourselves but for others, and our nature is fundamentally unselfish. In our relationship with others we must work for their collective good, while treating them justly and fairly as possible. Today Iescapedfrom anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions–not outside. 9.13 It’s time you realize that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet. 12.19But the man motivated by desire, who is mastered by pleasure, seems somehow more self-indulgent, less manly in his sins. 2.10 Dowhatnature demands. Get a move on–if you have it in you–and don’t worrywhetheranyone will give youcreditfor it. And don’t go expecting Plato’s republic; be satisfied with even the smallest progress, and treat the outcome of it all as unimportant. 9.29 The things ordained for you–teach yourself to be at one with those. And to the people who share them with you–treat them with love. With real love. 6.39 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. 4.49 Forget the future. When and if it comes, you’ll have the same resources to draw on–the same logos. 7.8
The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what you do. 4.18 At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work–as a human being…I am going to what I was born for.” 5.1 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 And to those who complain and try to obstruct and thwart things–they help as much as anyone. The world needs them as well. 6.42The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the quality of your thoughts. 5.16 To move from one unselfish action to another with God in mind. Only there, delight and stillness. 6.7
Our duty is to exercise stringent control over the faculty of perception, with the aim of protecting our mind from error. 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 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 It never ceases toamazeme: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own. 12.4If you can cut free of impressions that cling to the mind, of future and past–then you can spend the time you have left in tranquility. And in kindness. And at peace with the spirit within you. 12.3 The body and its parts are a river, the soul is a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion. 2.17 Then where is the harm to be found? In your capacity to see it. Stop doing that and everything will be fine. 4.39
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