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• Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.

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  Holy, Pantheism

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.86, Modern Library

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• God sees the inner spirit stripped of flesh, skin, and all debris. For his own mind only touches the spirit that he has allowed to flow from himself into our bodies. And if you can act the same way, you will rid yourself of all suffering. For surely if you are not preoccupied with the body that encloses you, you will not trouble yourself about clothes, houses, fame, and other showy trappings.

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  Clothes, House, Mind

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• Failing to understand the workings of one's own mind is bound to lead to unhappiness.

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  Mind, Failing, Unhappiness

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Without a purpose, nothing should be done.

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  Purpose, Done, Should

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• Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

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  Opinion, Assumption, Judgment

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

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  Life, Happiness, Happy

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1726). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself. Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker”, p.155

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• Remember that all is opinion.

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  Criticism, Opinion, Remember

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book II, (15), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

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  Integrity, Years, Over You

  Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Meditations”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job.

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  Jobs, Mean, Purpose

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

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  Change, Philosophical, Grief

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• Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.

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  Imagination, Crushed, Whole

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.108, Modern Library

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• Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

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  Strong, Time, Passing By

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (43), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

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  Inspirational, Philosophical, Thinking

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• Do not be ashamed of help.

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  Helping, Ashamed

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• Submit to the fate of your own free will.

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  Fate, Free Will, Submit

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• If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed. Harmed is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance.

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  Truth, Ignorance, Thinking

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (Book VI, Chapter 21), circa 170.

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• Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature?

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  Change, Done, Baths

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• Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

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  Fate, Play, Matter

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.61, Modern Library

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• He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

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  Happiness, Peace, Philosophical

  Attributed in "The Life You Were Born to Live : Finding Your Life Purpose" by Dan Millman, (Pt. 2, Ch. 2), 1995.

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• If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.

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  Live Life, Past, Serenity

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• Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

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  Honesty, Pain, Humility

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.48, Modern Library

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• Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

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  War, Philosophical, Future

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• Everything that happens, happens as it should.

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  Should, Happens

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• Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself.

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  Soul, Deep Within

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• A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

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  Philosophical, Ambition, Men

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