How Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations Transformed My Life - Legendas Bilíngues
It should be utterly unrelatable, incomprehensible to us.
The powerful man in the world 2000 years ago,
writing not even in his native language,
but in a foreign language,
writing in Greek, never intending it to be published, writing about his problems with foreign armies and incredible wealth and interest.
intrigue and sycophants, all the first world problems you can imagine from being the emperor of Rome.
How could that work?
How could a student of an obscure school of ancient philosophy have made something that lasts through the centuries?
I'm talking of course about Marx's releases, meditations, and Marx's releases to the man.
And all the things that he could teach us.
Again, it seems like he shouldn't be able to reach us but he's so accessible and he has so much to teach us.
That's what I want to talk about what I learned from Marcus Aurelius.
I was maybe 19, 20 years old when this book came to me.
This is the meditations of Marcus Aurelius and again it's an incredible historical document.
The most powerful man in the world was
writing notes to himself in the midnight dimness of his palace in his tent on the front lines
leading the Roman army in battle or sometimes as he was spotted to do in the Colosseum as the gladiatorial games raged on below.
Marcus Aurelius was sitting down and writing notes to himself about how to be better.
Specifically, he was keeping meditation.
This is one of the most valuable lessons from him.
He taking care not to be caesarephide, not to be dyed purple, not to be changed by being the emperor of Rome.
And of us can be changed by the circumstances where in extreme success, extreme adversity, we can be changed by the circumstances we're in.
But Marcus Ruiz wasn't changed because the fact that he had unlimited power, didn't alter the fact that philosophy had power over himself.
He I'm fighting to be the person that philosophy tried to make me.
And who was that person?
What is Marcus Aurelius teaches?
Marcus Aurelius teaches us to live with courage, self-discipline, justice, and wisdom.
Those are the four virtues of stoicism that Marcus Aurelius talks about over and over and again.
I have the tattooed on my wrist here as a reminder.
He what an extraordinary thing indeed.
He if you ever find anything better than courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom, it must be even more amazing.
But there isn't.
And he said this really powerful thing.
He said,
so what if they lie about you,
if they curse you,
if they stab you with He said what could possibly happen to you in life that would prevent you from acting with courage and justice and discipline and wisdom
Nothing.
So that's the core teaching from Mark's release that everything is an opportunity to practice virtue His famous quote that I wrote a book about the obstacle is the way.
What is he saying?
He's saying that every single situation we face in life is an opportunity to practice one of those virtues.
That's the most valuable teaching for Marcus Rias.
Every situation is an opportunity for excellence.
You're suddenly made king,
now you have to be excellent, you to be restrained, you to be disciplined, you have to be good, you have to be decent.
Suddenly thrown in prison on trumped-up charges,
there's a plague, There's an economic crisis, also opportunities for virtue, for courage, for wisdom, for justice, and-discipline.
That's the core teaching that Marx really gives us,
that so hit me when I was just a kid,
that virtue is this thing that we're aspiring towards,
that irritate excellence, this thing we all want and need to embody, everything we face in life is an opportunity.
to practice that.
When hit me as a as a teenager, as a person just entering my 20s, I just didn't know that that's what philosophy was about.
I philosophy was abstract.
I philosophy was theoretical.
I thought it was these arcane questions.
But the idea that philosophy is something we're fighting to live up to, that it's an ideal.
It's a tradition.
That's a really powerful thing that I've taken from Marcus.
Really is the Personalness with which Marcus is writing the way he's holding himself accountable.
You know he famously talks about okay You're waking up in the morning and you want to stay in bed and he goes yeah,
but what is your duty demand?
Why you want to huddle under the covers and stay warm?
That's not what you were put here to do You know he says love the discipline you know and let it support you.
It's a beautiful book.
There's never been anything like it.
No one will ever talk to you as directly,
as honestly, and as vulnerably, as Mark really does in meditation, which is something I actually learned from him as a writer.
I would say stylistically, Mark really has changed my life.
Here you have a guy who's being incredibly specific, who's saying that posthumous fame doesn't matter that being remembered by history doesn't matter.
And yet here he made something that's incredibly universal and timeless.
The of it makes it timeless.
The person on this of it makes it universal.
The not caring about impressing people or trends or fads or sales.
Just making something that works.
That's work.
why it works, that's why it lasts and endures.
But if Mark Cerritos is such an amazing writer and thinker, why don't we have a bunch more books from him?
Well, that's because meditation ends with Mark Cerritos ending.
It ends with his death.
He dies of the plague in the year 180 AD.
As he says in the final pages, and we can imagine him facing death courageously.
Of course, we always, to live longer.
He but I've only gotten through three acts where he's seen his life as a place.
He yes, this will be a drama in three acts.
The length fixed by the power that directed your creation and now directs your dissolution.
Neither was yours to determine.
And then he says, so make your exit with grace.
The same grace shown to you.
Mark's through this wasn't a pen and in philosophy.
wasn't on the sidelines.
He didn't live in the ivory tower.
He was a man of action.
He was leading Rome through a plague and eventually he succumbed to that plague and so too did the chance of him
writing any other books.
But meditations, it does survive to it.
This is my edition that you can see it's taped here.
It's falling apart.
It's got a million notes.
There's probably notes on every single page of this book.
because I've gone through it over and over and over and over again and
that's the wonderful thing about Marcus to realize is that you bring something to him and you take something new out each time.
The poet Heraclitus talks about we never step in the same river twice you're never the same person going into
this book or coming out of it even though it remains the same even though it hasn't been touched in 18 plus centuries.
Mark Surrealis is there, he's a resource, he's a leader, he's an inspiration.
If haven't let him change your life, you're missing out.
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