Meditations by Marcus Aurelius - Book 2

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Book 2 - On the River Gran, among the Quadi

Reading Time - 12 minutes

Knowledge of prior Books is not required

Gregory Hays translation used in session

Meditations is one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever written. With a profound understanding of human behaviour, Marcus provides insights, wisdom, and practical guidance on everything from living in the world to coping with adversity to interacting with others.

Explore this timeless collection that has been consulted and admired by leaders, readers and thinkers throughout the centuries.

Questions we'll explore

1. When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil.

What do you make of this?

2. Yes, you can—if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.

What are the consequences of doing this?

3. People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time—even when hard at work.

How do you feel about this?

4. In comparing sins (the way people do) Theophrastus says that the ones committed out of desire are worse than the ones committed out of anger:

Do you agree or disagree?

5. If it doesn’t harm your character, how can it harm your life?

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