Commonplace Wren

A Collection of Thoughts

Life

Meditations Chapter 2-14

Even if you’re going to live three thousand more years, or ten times that, remember: you cannot lose another life than the one you’re living now, or live another one than the one you’re losing. The longest amounts to the same as the shortest.

The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have?

~ Marcus Aurelius

Date Recorded: 11/21/2023

Meditations Chapter 3-10

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already or is impossible to see.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Date Recorded: 11/27/2023

Meditations Chapter 6-25

Think how much is going on inside you every second – in your soul, in your body. Why should it astonish you that so much more – everything that happens in that all-embracing unity, the world–is happening at the same time?

~ Marcus Aurelius

Date Recorded: 4/9/2024

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