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jaymike11 's review for:
Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
I am still thinking through this one and reviewing my notes. Knowing that Epictetus, a former slave, also had a lot to say on similar themes, I struggled a bit as I was constantly reminded that this was the journal of an emperor which we have turned into self-help today. This is not to say that Aurelius did not have his share of adversity to overcome, but the platform of privilege on which all of his thoughts were propped upon warped my sense of what he was getting at sometimes. My awareness of that caused me to challenge some of his thoughts, but there are many ideas and explanations in this work that I am still meditating on constantly.