Hey, what's up? This is Leo for actualized.org, and today I wanted to cover the meditations which were written by Marcus Aurelius.

He is a Roman emperor and really about the lessons that can be drawn from the meditations

and applied to your life in order to get more peace and contentment with the way your life is right now.

So what are the meditations, just to give a little bit of history

of where this work comes from?

Really, it's a diary written by Mark. of where this work comes from.

Really it's a diary written by Marcus Aurelius

Antonius, who was a Roman emperor back in 200 AD, there thereabouts and he was really considered one of the one of the

quote-unquote good emperors who ran the Roman Empire before it

ultimately collapsed a few hundred years later.

And what's really interesting about Marcus is his worldview and how he viewed life and how he applied that to running the Roman

Empire and and the kind of peace that this man has and just the kind of brilliant in in his way of thinking

because what's unique about the meditations which is actually the only

only I believe this is correct the only surviving work of a Roman Emperor written work is is that

you really get a picture into how he thought and I think it's very instructive because if I could if I could sum up the gist of it

the gist of his philosophy which was by the way stoicism was that everything that

people usually tend to associate with the problems in their life is external and

there's this dichotomy between the external things

that are bothering us and also our internal state of mind and how we're feeling and

how we're thinking. And what Stoicism does it really flips that coin on the other side so usually what

we're doing is we're always concerned about how are people thinking about us

what are we accomplishing why is that person making me feel bad, how can I make myself feel better by

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