Missy gifted me the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius on my recent visit to Connecticut (more on that to come) and it’s a welcome return to the mindfulness and meditations I’ve been practicing. Daily meditation keeps my baseline at a calmer level, thereby allowing for greater moments of stress to not raise my mood into emergency territory – a very likely place to find myself in this day and age.
From the intro alone, I’m already feeling calmer…
“For a man’s greatness lies not in wealth and station, as the vulgar believe, nor yet in his intellectual capacity, which is often associated with the meanest moral character, the most abject servility to those in high places, and arrogance to the poor and lowly; but a man’s true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examination, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself, as the emperor says he should not, about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not do that which he thinks and says and does.” ~ GEORGE LONG
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