Commonplace Wren

A Collection of Thoughts

Being Real

Meditations Chapter 3-11

To the stand-bys above, add this one: always to define whatever it is we perceive—to trace its outline—so we can see what it really is: its substance. Stripped bare. As a whole. Unmodified. And to call it by its name—the thing itself and its components, to which it will eventually return.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Date Recorded: 12/2/2023

Meditations Chapter 7-15

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. Like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, "No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished."

~ Marcus Aurelius

Date Recorded: 6/6/2024

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