Aurelius, “The whole world is change, and life itself is but what you deem it,” from Buddha, “Our thoughts are the creations of our minds;
Marcus Aurelius, who I'm a big fan of, from that period. Then that takes us to 284 AD, the guy we mentioned,
Marcus Aurelius writes, "To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over.
Marcus Aurelius says, there is no good or bad-- there's only perception.
Marcus Aurelius says this line.
Marcus Aurelius seems to be the most accessible.
Marcus Aurelius is how I got into it.
And Aurelien was busy belaying and she was busy climbing.
Marcus aurelus had this this history of of um spending a lot of time with soldiers in Barracks where really where he wanted to be was in Rome and hang out
So just like Marcus Aurelius, it's sa- same name two generations later.
- ... military men from Aurelian.
Her name is Aurelia Cotta.
While Marcus Aurelius, who was the most powerful man on the planet at the time-- emperor of Rome-- was on a military campaign.
They both read Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and other Stoics, and they thought, oh, these people were onto something here, that there is something that can work,
Just like Marcus Aurelius, I did have an anger problem.
But as Marcus Aurelius says , to expect that people are not gonna do stupid things or that people are not gonna say things that are hurtful
Very good at their job like Aurelian, you mentioned, right? So there's a series of Illyrian emperors who restore stability. And the reason why there's so many Illyrian
And this is done by Marcus Aurelius, who's a famous stoic, who made this famous years and years ago.
One of the famous lines about Marcus Aurelius is from Matthew Arnold, who was a Christian scholar and writer.
My favorite stoic quote is from Marcus Aurelius.
Since Tuscany and since the Aurelian highway, after suffering the outrages of Goths with fire or sword can no longer control forest with homestead or river with bridge, it's
There are versions of Marcus Aurelius's "Meditations" that really feel like a different book from some other translations.
Hi, my name is Aurelea Williams.
I have a quote on my refrigerator that's from Marcus Aurelius.
Then I remember one of the Stoics was Marcus Aurelius, and I read the "Meditations" when I was in college, and I found it an interesting, provocative book.
Right? And there are lots of Aurelii suddenly all over the place. Like, we can see it immediately. Uh, but we can't actually see the implementation.
What's really interesting about philosophy is that that's what Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations" was.
And one of the most famous practitioners, Marcus Aurelius, who's the old guy in "Gladiator" that Joaquin Phoenix's character kills.
whose piano was being tuned, called Aurelia Leiberman.
My favorite long quote-- too long to read to you now-- by Marcus Aurelius, who was a stoic philosopher and the Emperor of Rome.
So I focus on stoicism, specifically on Marcus Aurelius, who is at the time of writing his book "Meditations," which mine is partially based on,
And so here, the climber Aurelien is almost at the end of the first pitch, which is like five meters above him.
Whether you actually do your evening meditation in the way in which Marcus Aurelius did or not, that's a practical aspect of it,
fractured into three pieces, but then Emperor, Aurelian miraculously reconquered them in a period of five years.
empire ourselves, or as happened, Aurelian, that is someone from the other side, will reunite the empire. But it's always a Roman model. Like, there's,
We were talking um earlier about stoicism. I think like Marcus Aurelius's meditations is so informative on so many
And one of the books I highly recommend that I have on my nightstand is by Marcus Aurelias, who was emperor of Rome for 19 years, 14
And Memento Mori means "remember death." And there's a quote on the back from Marcus Aurelius.
And it's incredible. It's almost like a modern "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius.
And I would say that you can start in many places, whether it's Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations," or the "Moral
But stoicism, the three most prominent stoics are Marcus Aurelius, who I just said was the emperor, Epictetus, who was a former slave.
And perhaps the best model of that journal available to Stoic practitioners is the "Meditations" of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
In fact, if you notice, Marcus Aurelius writes his journal in the second person.
This emperor, Caracalla, now that's his nickname. His reigning name is Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
provinces, like, there's this explosion in the number of people called Aurelius, because that was his Roman family name.
Um, and so when you acquired citizenship from that edict, you became an Aurelius.
Something I noticed recently, I started reading little bits of more like ancient literature, like Marcus Aurelius or Epictetus, like stoic philosophers.
Sure. Well, the big one is the one that I based-- So the book is based on a quote from Marcus Aurelius.
Some of my favorite, for instance, are by a Classicist named Robin Waterfield, who has translated both Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus.
There are bits in their writings where they say, "This is how you do it." And as I said, Marcus Aurelius is a great example.