{"id":490,"date":"2008-11-09T10:46:41","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T10:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/?p=490"},"modified":"2008-11-09T10:53:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T10:53:42","slug":"marcus-aurelius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/11\/09\/marcus-aurelius\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Aurelius"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nBeen reading a lot this weekend, it’s the only form of escape I can turn to without relying on any form of planning. I’ve got a couple of book reviews to write but I thought I’d post up some passages I just read by Marcus Aurelius<\/a> which seem relevant right now for a number of reasons that I don’t intend to elaborate on …\n<\/p>\n

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\r\nAll things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is\r\nnothing that is not interconnected with everything else.  For things are\r\ninterdependent, and they combine to form this universal order.  There is\r\nonly one universe made up of all things, and one creator who pervades\r\nthem; there is one substance and one law, namely, common reason in all\r\nthinking creatures, and all truth is one--if, as we believe, there is only\r\none path of perfection for all beings who share the same mind.\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
 … and … <\/p>\n
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\r\nWhy should anyone be afraid of change?  What can take place without it?\r\nWhat can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal Nature?\r\nCan you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change?\r\nCan you eat, without the food undergoing a change?  And can anything\r\nuseful be done without change?  Don't you see that for you to change\r\nis just the same, and is equally necessary for universal Nature?\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
 … and also …<\/p>\n
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\r\nDiscard everything except these few truths:  we can live\r\nonly in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest\r\nof our life is dead and buried or shrouded in uncertainty.\r\nShort is the life we lead, and small our patch of earth.\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n
 … and finally … <\/p>\n
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\r\nnowhere can a man find a quieter or more \r\n   untroubled retreat than in his own soul\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Been reading a lot this weekend, it’s the only form of escape I can turn to without relying on any form of planning. I’ve got a couple of book reviews to write but I thought I’d post up some passages … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[353,382,406],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-inspiration","tag-personal","tag-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}