I concluded the last essay by suggesting that everyone should take time out to ask themselves why they get up in the morning. Clearly this question only had tangential relevance to my main thesis in that essay, which had to do with Marcus Aurelius’s exemplary clarity in setting up an objective or ideal pattern for [...]
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This is the second part of a series about Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. The series is introduced here.
One of the most popular articles on one of the most popular self-help websites is entitled How To Become An Early Riser. Steve Pavlina has gotten a lot of mileage from that article—and it’s not because he tapped a [...]
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This is the first part of a series about Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. The series is introduced here.
I first encountered Meditations in a film called The Corn Is Green. Katherine Hepburn plays an altruistic school-mistress who moves to the Welsh country-side to educate miner’s children. She discovers one young miner who turns out to be brilliant. [...]
Tags: central insight, corn is green, katherine hepburn, marcus aurelius, meditations, noble character, piety, progress in education, vote of thanks
