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Life Wisdom from Marcus Aurelius | Book Insight on The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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The View From Above by Modern Scholars
Contemplating our own mortality and that of other people is a recurring theme in the meditations. It's part of a larger technique which involves meditating on the transience of all material things. The View from Above has become a popular exercise with modern followers of Stoicism. This vision expands even further into a meditation on the smallness of our body in relation to the vastness of the whole cosmos.
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