[Image] From the 5th book of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, here’s a little motivation from arguably the greatest and noblest emperor in the history of Rome.
by Mallungtz
[Image] From the 5th book of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, here’s a little motivation from arguably the greatest and noblest emperor in the history of Rome.
by Mallungtz
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Sounds like Mr. Aurelius worked for HR
Everyone: I don’t want to work for shit
Aurelius: *YOU DON’T LOVE YOURSELF*
We do not exist to work.
Spoken like a man who was not yoked to a headset and forced to stare at gray walls for 8 hours a day.
Killer passage from a time long departed.
I wonder if looking into the future 1850 years he’d repeat these words and sentiment after the realization that, by this measure, some people’s “nature” is to slave away in exploitation, earning little benefit and no appreciation.
When I was much younger，after my mother died，I went through a long period of general listlessness，malaise and depression during my later years in high school，and it was pretty hard to shake. It’d manifest as a sort of self-imposed helplessness; I was just idle all the time，barely lifting a finger to attend to my own life. Sometimes — as I suspect it will for the rest of my days — it rears its ugly head again in different and occasionally subtle forms，but the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius was one of the books that really helped me at that time. It still does; I will recall writings like this from its pages and，at the very least，it helps me re-orient myself and my thinking.
Thank you so much for posting this，OP. It’s inspiring as ever.
So much value to be had even today from *Meditations* and the other stoic texts