Sorry if this post seems a little late, sometimes when I try to make a post it doesn't work, so I have to come back when I get chance to write it again.
I loved everything Marcus Aurelius had to say. His method of handling life reminds me of when Plato spoke about art and the irrational emotions it inspires people to have. To me it seems as though Marcus Aurelius tries his hardest to subdue his emotions, irrational or not, and replaces them with cool logic and reasoning. As we all know this is extremely difficult and I can see where writing these meditations would be extremely useful for him. I wonder if emotions can be completely ignored. I aways hear people saying not to bottle up your emotions. When practicing the habits of Marcus Aurelius, am I just bottling them up, or keeping them in check? I feel more capable of doing great things when I'm in his mindset; almost unstoppable. But then morning I wake up in a lazy mood. You know those days when all you want to do is sit around with some friends an watch movies. Then I think of his mediation (64) that laziness and sleepiness are just pain in disguise, that you just need to remind yourself that "I'm giving in to pain". At that moment I just don't care. Yeah so what? I deserve a break. Next time I feel this way I will make a conscious effort to push through those unproductive feelings, not to give in to Freud's Id ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego) I shared this reading with a few friends and they loved it as well. He truly is an inspirational man.
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