Thank you. This and epictetus read or listen over and over until it is in your subconcious. This is a base, not for happiness, but wisdom, an essential tool for internal peace. Live by these lessons, peace in a crazy world without the need of someone to take over for your parent or the parent you never had. You are your parent now, if you do not want that, don't waste your time.
Agreed. Find a way to get it into the subconscious as we have been programmed for it's opposite and that can be difficult to reverse. I have been made very weak by my parents and culture with lies about reality. I have become so self centered and important. I now see at this late date that is where almost all of my suffering has come from.
yes self sustainability in the midst of forced hiving, which should be by consent... so the modulation coefficient, as related to an amorphous material, slow change vs. fast change, lengths vs. times, vs recursions measurement whether it be cesium 147, or in terms of revolutions around the sun. for recursion measures give a different inntermittent recursion measure, but keep the main recursion measures....
Lovely, just lovely. Not just the content, but the historical background of the work and of the man. Every "Self" perishes yet "The Self" endures. Will Durant's "Caesar and Christ" brought me here by the way. GREAT book, I highly recommend it.
It’s just that he knew how to learn from these people. Many of us know wise and moral people and, although we may admire them, we struggle to embody their ways of living.
Trinitrophenylnitramine, you confuse fiction with reality. you are talking about a movie not reality. the person you spoke of was made up. the person you think of was actually a combination of several people from roman history that lived at different times. please educate yourself.
Fans of Marcus Aurelius & Stoic philosophy will likely enjoy "On Duties", by Cicero - listen for free on GreatestAudioBooks - ruclips.net/video/z1Jv8TLuoCs/видео.html
I found something helpful in referring this material to beginners. There is a summary of the lessons that make for a good intro to wanting more detail. It should make listening more effective for the new listener.
Ancient humans were as intelligent and wise as modern humans. They had the same brain capacity. They simply hadn't yet made the technological discoveries. Their philosophical and moral discoveries still apply.
Christianity, Judaism and Marcus Aurelius are totally intertwined at this point of history. The teachings of the ancient Greeks, the Jews and Jesus are about merge and erupt.
Discovering the "Great Books of the Western World" edited by Mortimer Adler (Encyclopedia Britannica ) made a pivital imprint in my own thinking 35 years ago. I bought the leather bound 1952 edition at a used book store for $250. I think there are 54 volumes; the 1992 edition added 6 more volumes. The two volume Syntopicon is a thorough Concordance containing 102 leading topics which are then referring back to the multi volume set plus the Bible! Glad you mentioned that. There is a ten year reading plan and if one looks around, one may find a seperate set of books that guide you through that ten year reading list and they have a series of questions to ask. (Just to make sure you got the right understanding of the argument). This set has kept me stimulated for those rainy night's or vacant weekends. There's a whole story where Robert Hutchins of the University of Chicago and Mortimer Adler in the 1940's were convinced our educational system was strictly geared to produce good little tax payers, yet were never taught how to think! Anyway, today only the Christian Homeschool movement use that set as part of their curriculum! Jordan Peterson also has a lengthy reading list for those who are interested but it includes more psychology books. Mortimer Adler was criticized for having no female authors, black or Oriental Authors. The 1992 edition introduced some female writers. As for the Blacks, they were never sought out in antiquity; the Orientals would change the whole dynamics of the set because they don't believe in a "Personal God" but in a 'Force', chi, ki etc. That then is a whole seperate issue.
Meditations are perhaps the only document of this type ever produced. They are the private thoughts of the most powerful man in the world who advises himself on how to fulfill the responsibilities and obligations of his offices. Meditations Book by Marcus Aurelius (PDF-Summary-Review-Quotes-Online Reading-Download): www.toevolution.com/file/view/540034/meditations-book-by-marcus-aurelius-pdf-summary-review-quotes-online-reading-download
Librivox recordings are a great repository of classic literature in audiobook form, but it drives me up the fucking wall when they'll have a different narrator for each chapter, like in this instance. You'll get some good narrators in portions, with good enunciation/verbal clarity/recording equipment/etc., but then you occasionally get some like the good Father (that narrated Chapter 8) that narrate in a stumbling manner and apparently record the shit on a potato in the bottom of a coffee can. I definitely wouldn't fault him if he took a little out of the collection plate to get a microphone worth a shit (and for the love of all that is decent/indecent and holy/unholy, one with a damn pop filter so when he says "p's" and "t's" it doesn't sound like he's spitting bugs out of his mouth).
So something that is completely out of your control drives you "up the fucking wall". Considering the essence of The Meditations that is hm.. an interesting attitude.
Once you are, you will always be. By, Max Morgan If life is going to be forgotten after death; then how is it that you know you are reading this? You may not be dead yet, but you know you're going to die and leave the living one day in the future. That doesn't mean you will forget that you have lived. In this situation, forgetting would be the same thing as never happened, because of the absoluteness of so called nothingness. Only because we are part of something bigger is this possible. Without God there would be no awareness of life, and with out God we wouldn't remember a thing. We didn't make this paradox, but we are a small part of the parts that make it happen. God has to be in the details my friends, because without "HIM" , the math wouldn't work out. There is no such a thing as nothing; even emptiness of space is trapped within something, because it has to be, in order to function properly. I may not know all the family that died before me, but I do believe they know me, and I believe they are praying for me why they wait for me to come back home to the heaven that I am also a part of. Nothing, and then something, and then back to nothing, makes no sense. A sludge accident didn't make the single cell. A single cell didn't make all life on Earth, and it sure didn't split into a male, and female. So, you might really want to think about how you live your life, and that means, you shouldn't be trying to twist what you know to fit your needs. God's way should be the only way! Being a proud #LBGQT+ is a messed up thing, and it is bringing the USA to its knees, and in some cases to our butts. Jesus is my King, and I know he loves God as much as I would like to think I do. Later!
I don't think this audio is the Original Book or an accurate translation within some parts of this reading. There are some Word uses that were not within the Original Book. This Audio is not an exact reading or interpetation of what was originaly written by Marcus Aurelius.
commodus was an individual and marcus aurelius was an exceptional man for his time and culture, and for his station. typical roman elites were very predatory, amoral, even sociopathic in their schemes for power. commodus is more like the norm operating during that time.
If any one wants a Very well read version of this search online for Duncan Steen (a.k.a.Jinananda) Naxos audio books You can probably find a free version somewhere online. I recommend it over this version.
I thank the readers for their work but I'm sorry the readers are really really bad. Marcus (MarkieA) should have read this himself, he's starting to get a big head.
I am really enjoying this, but how can man live according to nature when man does not live in a natural environment? What about human nature? Humans want stuff it may be material, spiritual, or whatever. This way of going about life seems to go against the very thing that made humanity advance so far. I mean had Rome really followed these ideas they wouldn't have been the Rome that we know today, right?
meditations marcus aurelius classics club meditation helps to relise stress.Another resource I also found helpfull for mindfulness meditation practice cds is Skyarza Meditation Success Star - search google if you want
I was thinking the same thing "what does live according to thy nature" really mean? maybe it just means deep down what you know to be right. Like being married and not cheating is right because it's moral to be faithful to your partner and support what you have chosen to be your lot whether you like it for a time or not, because putting up with what we do not desire strengthens us internally makes us more patience and more loving. We cannot root ourselves and grow roots strong enough to build character until we stand firm in our principles even when the world around us shoves us around and all over. Like being aware that everything we do is apart of nature and always affects the whole whether seen or unseen. If we can see it, well then it's as well as seen because when we look into our own souls we are looking into the whole. I think what I'm getting from stoicism is that we have our part in the whole only through what we control through ourselves and when we try to evolve and strengthen ourselves we strengthen the whole. And what is more natural than giving life to life, when we are strong it causes more growth in others to spread.
It's impossible for me to sit through a narrator that stumbles & bumbles & overtly mispronounces. I spend my time cringing or trying to figure out what's being said instead of focusing on the content. It's impossible to keep in the flow & tune in. I appreciate that this is free but I can't get past chapter three.
Hello everyone, do you have a personal relationship with our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ? The Son of God. That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. - Romans 10:9
If God's love is unconditional, then why did he give us the ten commandments? Jesus didn't come here to change any of those rules God written in stone. And if Jesus's love isn't like God's, then why does he break the seven seals in the book of Revelation ? You were a thought before conception, you learned how to think as you grew, and your memories will follow you in death . From begining to end, you belong to the creator, and I hope and pray that when you die, that you have kept that in mind for most of your life. I want God to remember me, because God can, and will take that memory and make it better, if he wants too. The Bible says that he will, and that is good enough for me. :)
Marcus Aurelius will always have better things to say than jesus ... a full life lends itself to self speculation ... jesus only speculated upon others.
***** Thank you maam ... It is a pleasure to understand in life that my opinions are based on life experience and facts of the world and not on false gods and religions which seek to subdue those around them for their filthy lucre.
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Thank you. This and epictetus read or listen over and over until it is in your subconcious. This is a base, not for happiness, but wisdom, an essential tool for internal peace. Live by these lessons, peace in a crazy world without the need of someone to take over for your parent or the parent you never had. You are your parent now, if you do not want that, don't waste your time.
Agreed. Find a way to get it into the subconscious as we have been programmed for it's opposite and that can be difficult to reverse. I have been made very weak by my parents and culture with lies about reality. I have become so self centered and important. I now see at this late date that is where almost all of my suffering has come from.
That is exactly what I want. I think that it’s the reason we are here.
A precise & wise statement! If possible, would give it multiple thumbs up. Best of luck to you in your journey....
yes self sustainability in the midst of forced hiving, which should be by consent... so the modulation coefficient, as related to an amorphous material, slow change vs. fast change, lengths vs. times, vs recursions measurement whether it be cesium 147, or in terms of revolutions around the sun. for recursion measures give a different inntermittent recursion measure, but keep the main recursion measures....
Lovely, just lovely. Not just the content, but the historical background of the work and of the man. Every "Self" perishes yet "The Self" endures. Will Durant's "Caesar and Christ" brought me here by the way. GREAT book, I highly recommend it.
I love how my favorite part of the Meditations at 2:52:30 is in scuffed audio. Book eight, first chapter. The guiding principle.
Who recorded that mess, everyone else was so clear, amateurs.🤦🏻
He knew a lot of wise and moral people.
The reading made it impossible to focus on content. download mp3 version @ tinyurl . com \ qemb9sb . remove spaces.
It’s just that he knew how to learn from these people. Many of us know wise and moral people and, although we may admire them, we struggle to embody their ways of living.
Trinitrophenylnitramine, you confuse fiction with reality. you are talking about a movie not reality. the person you spoke of was made up. the person you think of was actually a combination of several people from roman history that lived at different times. please educate yourself.
After Holy Writ, there is no book I LOVE more than Macus Aurelius' "Meditations"!
The bible
In what world is this an acceptable response? Learn some manners
I was 13 once too
Got to love the hatred against people expressing their own opinions.
@@ludwigwittgenstein2422 this is also the age of marrying a horse, yo mama!
Main Text starts at 3:09
Wolfgang Hendrix thanks
Absolutely, and sorry about the problem - Thanks, Derick!
Thank you for your reading
Fans of Marcus Aurelius & Stoic philosophy will likely enjoy "On Duties", by Cicero - listen for free on GreatestAudioBooks -
ruclips.net/video/z1Jv8TLuoCs/видео.html
Thank You. Enjoyed the readings very much.
Chapter 2 19:36
links are all wrong in the description, IMHO the book starts from 19:36 , Chapter 1 is credits
kevjtnbtmglr thank you✌️
The Times in the description is the length not a time stamp
credits lol :) hahah
Thanks! Just saved me 19 minutes
No. You are the one who is wrong, dumb, and probably gay.
I found something helpful in referring this material to beginners. There is a summary of the lessons that make for a good intro to wanting more detail. It should make listening more effective for the new listener.
Thank you soooo much for this.
WONDERFUL WORK , YOU HAVE DONE . in GRATITUDE . OF COURSE , I INCLUDE the TEXTS BELOW the VIDEO .
thank you
God Save The Emperor!
Excellent philosophy.
Legend
So advanced for the year. Or maybe its just me believing that back then they were not this advanced.
its just you.
Emotionally (philosophically) man has not changed since civilization emerged. In many ways I believe we are in a dark age of reason.
john miller see roage.com my friend!
Ancient humans were as intelligent and wise as modern humans. They had the same brain capacity. They simply hadn't yet made the technological discoveries. Their philosophical and moral discoveries still apply.
❤️. Well read ! Very interesting! Thank you .🤔
Aurelius the best
3:53:45 is my favorite part when gets to the gods part.
Can I make a request for next audiobook in your voice?????
Cool morals.
Fantastic video
Is this the Gregory Hays translation?
Is there a DL link?
Christianity, Judaism and Marcus Aurelius are totally intertwined at this point of history. The teachings of the ancient Greeks, the Jews and Jesus are about merge and erupt.
He is included in The Great Books collection...the founding philosophies for Western civilization. Did you know that?
Discovering the "Great Books of the Western World" edited by Mortimer Adler (Encyclopedia Britannica ) made a pivital imprint in my own thinking 35 years ago. I bought the leather bound 1952 edition at a used book store for $250. I think there are 54 volumes; the 1992 edition added 6 more volumes. The two volume Syntopicon is a thorough Concordance containing 102 leading topics which are then referring back to the multi volume set plus the Bible! Glad you mentioned that. There is a ten year reading plan and if one looks around, one may find a seperate set of books that guide you through that ten year reading list and they have a series of questions to ask. (Just to make sure you got the right understanding of the argument). This set has kept me stimulated for those rainy night's or vacant weekends. There's a whole story where Robert Hutchins of the University of Chicago and Mortimer Adler in the 1940's were convinced our educational system was strictly geared to produce good little tax payers, yet were never taught how to think! Anyway, today only the Christian Homeschool movement use that set as part of their curriculum! Jordan Peterson also has a lengthy reading list for those who are interested but it includes more psychology books. Mortimer Adler was criticized for having no female authors, black or Oriental Authors. The 1992 edition introduced some female writers. As for the Blacks, they were never sought out in antiquity; the Orientals would change the whole dynamics of the set because they don't believe in a "Personal God" but in a 'Force', chi, ki etc. That then is a whole seperate issue.
thank you for this, chapter 8 is a little rough tho
Is this the same boo from Gregory hays?
16:56 Commodus??????????
Chapter 1 begins @ 2:47
Chapter 2 begins @ 19:12
Meditations are perhaps the only document of this type ever produced. They are the private thoughts of the most powerful man in the world who advises himself on how to fulfill the responsibilities and obligations of his offices.
Meditations Book by Marcus Aurelius (PDF-Summary-Review-Quotes-Online Reading-Download): www.toevolution.com/file/view/540034/meditations-book-by-marcus-aurelius-pdf-summary-review-quotes-online-reading-download
1:19:51 Chapter 5
1:52:12 Chapter 6
Thanks,!
33:00 chapter 3
Librivox recordings are a great repository of classic literature in audiobook form, but it drives me up the fucking wall when they'll have a different narrator for each chapter, like in this instance. You'll get some good narrators in portions, with good enunciation/verbal clarity/recording equipment/etc., but then you occasionally get some like the good Father (that narrated Chapter 8) that narrate in a stumbling manner and apparently record the shit on a potato in the bottom of a coffee can. I definitely wouldn't fault him if he took a little out of the collection plate to get a microphone worth a shit (and for the love of all that is decent/indecent and holy/unholy, one with a damn pop filter so when he says "p's" and "t's" it doesn't sound like he's spitting bugs out of his mouth).
So something that is completely out of your control drives you "up the fucking wall". Considering the essence of The Meditations that is hm.. an interesting attitude.
ruclips.net/video/TMTkedIUX8U/видео.html
It's free
I pay for my internet and electricity, paid for this computer, and paid for the speakers. Debunked.
Once you are, you will always be.
By, Max Morgan
If life is going to be forgotten after death; then how is it that you know you are reading this? You may not be dead yet, but you know you're going to die and leave the living one day in the future. That doesn't mean you will forget that you have lived. In this situation, forgetting would be the same thing as never happened, because of the absoluteness of so called nothingness. Only because we are part of something bigger is this possible. Without God there would be no awareness of life, and with out God we wouldn't remember a thing. We didn't make this paradox, but we are a small part of the parts that make it happen. God has to be in the details my friends, because without "HIM" , the math wouldn't work out. There is no such a thing as nothing; even emptiness of space is trapped within something, because it has to be, in order to function properly. I may not know all the family that died before me, but I do believe they know me, and I believe they are praying for me why they wait for me to come back home to the heaven that I am also a part of. Nothing, and then something, and then back to nothing, makes no sense. A sludge accident didn't make the single cell. A single cell didn't make all life on Earth, and it sure didn't split into a male, and female. So, you might really want to think about how you live your life, and that means, you shouldn't be trying to twist what you know to fit your needs. God's way should be the only way! Being a proud #LBGQT+ is a messed up thing, and it is bringing the USA to its knees, and in some cases to our butts. Jesus is my King, and I know he loves God as much as I would like to think I do. Later!
Anyone listening to this after hearing about it on JRE?
Audiobook is not the best format for this particular book. Pace is too fast for me to understand the meaning
hit settings icon to slow down
You could make that argument for every substantial book ever written
I don't think this audio is the Original Book or an accurate translation within some parts of this reading. There are some Word uses that were not within the Original Book. This Audio is not an exact reading or interpetation of what was originaly written by Marcus Aurelius.
Chapter 4 51:00
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sound quality on chapter 8 is horrible
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wtf, how does an emperor like this raise a son like Commodus????
Hypocrisy is everywhere
commodus was such an idiot i refuse to believe Aurelius could have been his father like wtf
I bet he is actually the son of Lucius Verus LOL
Commodus was outside of his control.
commodus was an individual and marcus aurelius was an exceptional man for his time and culture, and for his station. typical roman elites were very predatory, amoral, even sociopathic in their schemes for power. commodus is more like the norm operating during that time.
Is death approximately adam i heard it from a monk but not in this wording
Born in the Serbia(SIRMIUM)
If any one wants a Very well read version of this search online for
Duncan Steen (a.k.a.Jinananda)
Naxos audio books
You can probably find a free version somewhere online.
I recommend it over this version.
Poorly read version of this masterpiece.
D Frost, thank you. Duncan Steen's narration is the best version.
Bookmark 36:00
32:57-40:20
This is the main cycle of questions about all natures of life
33:04
It'd too hard to understand this kind of language
Paulo Renato Zimmermann listen to it 100 times then. it will sink in. patience.
This is the type of language that needs to be listened to through meditation. Hence why it's called meditations. It takes deep thought to understand.
I thank the readers for their work but I'm sorry the readers are really really bad.
Marcus (MarkieA) should have read this himself, he's starting to get a big head.
I have a job at a german food cake game.
someone should read this in the original Latin.
he wrote in Greek.
Roman Brown did not know that because you can always find aurelius in those red latin books.
Phil V how would that help us?
Roger Morris good, them weight good deeds and bad deeds, account for legacy, compare to yo'self then decide if u have standing to "dismiss" homeboy.
here...this may help you: www.foldl.me/2013/marcus-aurelius-and-slavery-in-the-roman-empire/
Too fast, best to you.
Sometimes I fart when I go doo doo.
Chapter 8 guy is recording in a fish bowl underwater
This man speaks in cursive english
faustin carter of yale too
What is the reader's accent?
this video, with the same same audio, has timestamps ruclips.net/video/rqqjU7zCI10/видео.html
I am really enjoying this, but how can man live according to nature when man does not live in a natural environment? What about human nature? Humans want stuff it may be material, spiritual, or whatever. This way of going about life seems to go against the very thing that made humanity advance so far. I mean had Rome really followed these ideas they wouldn't have been the Rome that we know today, right?
meditations marcus aurelius classics club meditation helps to relise stress.Another resource I also found helpfull for mindfulness meditation practice cds
is Skyarza Meditation Success Star - search google if you want
I was thinking the same thing "what does live according to thy nature" really mean? maybe it just means deep down what you know to be right. Like being married and not cheating is right because it's moral to be faithful to your partner and support what you have chosen to be your lot whether you like it for a time or not, because putting up with what we do not desire strengthens us internally makes us more patience and more loving. We cannot root ourselves and grow roots strong enough to build character until we stand firm in our principles even when the world around us shoves us around and all over. Like being aware that everything we do is apart of nature and always affects the whole whether seen or unseen. If we can see it, well then it's as well as seen because when we look into our own souls we are looking into the whole. I think what I'm getting from stoicism is that we have our part in the whole only through what we control through ourselves and when we try to evolve and strengthen ourselves we strengthen the whole. And what is more natural than giving life to life, when we are strong it causes more growth in others to spread.
Man are also apart of nature.
I have a german cake game.
Truly garbage audio starts at 2:52:30 and ends at 4:03:17
Great book but an Ozzie narrating it just makes it sound like banter 🤣🤣
I shop at British shopping malls.
Dairy
terrible audio quality
reeshar fahx And the reader had rather poor diction
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I have a job at a german food store.
The Space Born Aldi..
Read too fast
It's impossible for me to sit through a narrator that stumbles & bumbles & overtly mispronounces. I spend my time cringing or trying to figure out what's being said instead of focusing on the content. It's impossible to keep in the flow & tune in. I appreciate that this is free but I can't get past chapter three.
Hello everyone, do you have a personal relationship with our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ? The Son of God. That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. - Romans 10:9
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If God's love is unconditional, then why did he give us the ten commandments? Jesus didn't come here to change any of those rules God written in stone. And if Jesus's love isn't like God's, then why does he break the seven seals in the book of Revelation ? You were a thought before conception, you learned how to think as you grew, and your memories will follow you in death . From begining to end, you belong to the creator, and I hope and pray that when you die, that you have kept that in mind for most of your life. I want God to remember me, because God can, and will take that memory and make it better, if he wants too. The Bible says that he will, and that is good enough for me. :)
Why do you say such things? Marcus Aurelius was a good pagan. Roman and Greek philosophy is an extension of their religion
I eat German food.
Better than Jesus? Luft I suggest you read the bible and are able to comprehend it.
+David Rosales He means about Jesus's sayings.
Way better. I read that nonsense created by the Roman empire to control the Roman populace.
Festina_Lente
What is the difference between a myth and a historical account?
Trinitrophenylnitramine
There are theories Christianity was inspired by Buddhism.
WatcherOfShadows Zoroastrianism*
Marcus Aurelius will always have better things to say than jesus ... a full life lends itself to self speculation ... jesus only speculated upon others.
***** Thank you maam ... It is a pleasure to understand in life that my opinions are based on life experience and facts of the world and not on false gods and religions which seek to subdue those around them for their filthy lucre.
luft baloon Very well put.
As M.A. said himself, everything is opinion.
Thomaspoa He was wrong, nature is more than our imagination, and some opinion are wrong.
Lonesome Crow
Yes, but he did believe in soul.. Based on reason, instead of speculation.
mgtow
thank you
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