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📿 Meditating on Life
This week’s Saturday meditation comes from the notes of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations (or notes to himself). In a passage from Book II, Marcus observed, “How quickly all things disappear….”
Though thou shouldest be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses. The longest and shortest are thus brought to the same. For the present is the same to all, though that which perishes is not the same; and so that which is lost appears to be a mere moment. For a man cannot lose either the past or the future: for what a man has not, how can anyone take this from him?
Contemplation Questions (Pick one or create your own!):
What does it mean to live in the here and now?
How might you loosen your grip on the future?
This Week’s Meditations…
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Until next time, be wise and be well,
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