Marcus Aurelius Quotes About Meditation

Quotes about: Meditation

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Peace, Philosophical

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

• The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Motivational, Inspirational Running, Track

• Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Inspiration, Being Alone

  c. AD 170-180 Meditations, bk.4, no.3 (translated by M Staniforth).

• 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.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Truth, Ignorance, Thinking

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

• Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Dream, Reality, Views

• Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Ill Will, Evil

• Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Meditation, Sake, Bears

• You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Meditation, Soul, Littles

  "Marcus Aurelius and His Times".

• Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Struggle, Meditation, Release

• Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Meditation, Doe, Emeralds

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.74, Enhanced Media Publishing

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