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Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor

You have also forgotten that every person's mind comes from the divine. Nothing truly belongs to us — not our children, not our bodies, not even our lives. Everything comes from the One who gives all things. All things are just our opinions about them. No one really lives except in this present moment. So when anyone dies, they lose nothing more than a single instant of time.

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Freedom & Control Death & Mortality
Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor Original

Thou hast also forgotten that every man's mind partakes of the Deity, and issueth from thence; and that no man can properly call anything his own, no not his son, nor his body, nor his life; for that they all proceed from that One who is the giver of all things: that all things are but opinion; that no man lives properly, but that very instant of time which is now present. And therefore that no man whensoever he dieth can properly be said to lose any more, than an instant of time.

Meditations, Book 12, Section 19 Book 12 · 32 of 41
Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor

When you feel upset about something, have you forgotten that all things happen according to the nature of the universe? Only the person who did wrong should be concerned. And what is happening now has always happened in the world and always will happen. It happens everywhere. All people are connected to each other — not by blood or family, but by sharing the same kind of mind.

Meditations, Book 12, Section 19 Book 12 · 31 of 41
Calm Your Mind Human Nature Freedom & Control
Marcus Aurelius — The Emperor Original

When thou art grieved at anything, hast thou forgotten that all things happen according to the nature of the universe; and that him only it concerns, who is in fault; and moreover, that what is now done, is that which from ever hath been done in the world, and will ever be done, and is now done everywhere: how nearly all men are allied one to another by a kindred not of blood, nor of seed, but of the same mind.

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