Meditations

"Written in the heat of battle and the halls of power-the ultimate guide to mastering your mind."Meditations is a collection of twelve books containing the private thoughts of the most powerful man in the ancient world. Writing to himself as a form of spiritual exercise, Marcus Aurelius explores how to remain virtuous in a world of vice, how to find tranquility in the face of death, and how to perform one's duty without complaint. He argues that while we cannot control external events, we have ...