How To Live Your Life - Marcus Aurelius (Stoicism)
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- In this video we will be talking about 10 ways to live our life from the writings of Marcus Aurelius. He was also a devout student of the philosophy of Stoicism. During his rule, Aurelius found the time to construct a series of autobiographical writings, now known as the Meditations. In these writings, the Marcus Aurelius offered a number of key insights on how to live a life.
So here are 10 ways to live your life from Marcus Aurelius.
01. Be Grateful
02. Show Empathy and take care of your life
03. Be Mindful
04. Practice Virtuousness
05. Willingly contribute
06. Revenge is not necessary
07. Have Patience
08. Maintain Social Relationships
09. Be genuine, modest and truthful
10. Accept and appreciate yourself
I hope you enjoyed watching the video and hope you find these insights very helpful to for your life.
Even though Marcus Aurelius wrote it 2,000 years ago - his insights on Stoicism still carry strong weight today. Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC. Even though it is over 2000 years old, more and more people are discovering how Stoicism is not only relevant to modern times, but can be applied in very simple, yet strong ways.
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Herod, Nikos. Stoicism: How to Live the Stoic Way of Life According to Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and the Stoic Philosophers; The Stoic Approach to Wisdom, Perseverance, and Living the Good Life
Marcus Aurelius says “Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”
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“ WASTE NO MORE TIME ARGUING WHAT A GOOD MAN SHOULD BE . BE ONE “
Even if you’re a woman! 😏
I'll be honest.....why didn't I find this 2 years ago?!?
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*_My Favorite Marcus Aurelius Quote ~ “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”_*
@MythicASMR that doesn't mean u can't control urself
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Yes that is a good one to remember.
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The speaker keeps saying that the Marcus intended the reader to entepret something. It's important to keep in mind that Marcus actually did not intend for anyone to encounter his writings, they were for himself; we just came across them and realized his writings were a profound piece of work.
Stay humble, and work on yourself so that you may then contribute to the world for as long as you carry a vessel, what we call a body. And perhaps beyond, much like Marcus Aurelius did, leaving the fruits of his writings behind for us to bear in our time of growth.
We need world leaders of the quality of Marcus Aurelius now more than ever.
"Almost nothing material is needed for a happy life, for he, who has understood existence"
almost sounds like a thanos quote lol
"Our life is what our thoughts make it" Marcus Aurelius Truer words were never spoken.
Greg Long what our life is is decided by much more than what we think about it. Even our thoughts are influenced, and have a set of inherent qualities that determine their nature.
@@dgsfg8401 Yes. Stuff happens. But you have no control over those things anymore than you can control the weather. Your thoughts and what you do are the only things you have control over.
Greg Long you cant control your unconscious thoughts
@@craigsandison5731 I think he was referring to conscious thoughts. This is a famous quote by Aurelius. I didn't say it always applies or can always be controlled.
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I'm lucky that this emperor had lived to pass his learnings to us.
The thing about Marcus Aurelius and his writings is that he never meant for anyone to read any of it; it was a summary of personal journals written during campaigns. One of the main reasons why he wrote what he did, was because of the constant presence of death during a campaign and the possibility of dying. This would make anyone think a lot!
Great, small, little book
you think death isnt as prevalent now as it was then? sure life was completely different, but look at cancer and aids, hunger, rape, murder, wars, tsunamis, its the same now... we still have death in our face, there are just new ways for people to ignore it. the less people ignore life, the more they think, and the more someone thinks the more they realize that death is imminent. i dont see how anyone could say these lessons are not as prevalent, (heck theyre probably more prevalent now with so many more people in the world) as they were back then. if more people followed this and actually used their intuition and minds more they would help the world and we would have a better earth. but alas.... not many do. which is why all of us should learn his words and thoughts
@@thedarkshinobi222 not even comparable. Death was in front of everyone's eyes much more often then
"he never meant for anyone to read any of it" do you mind referencing where you found this information? ty
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@@tripzville7569 absolutely love it. we have to accept the world around us, along with our individual realities, as they are. as well as accepting and respecting others realities
I am currently off work with work-related stress linked to workload and bullying and these videos may very well have saved my life.
Thank you so much
Hopefully things will improve. Good luck
Grant me the Serenity to Accept the things that i cannot change,
The Courage to Change the things I can and
The Wisdom to know the Difference.
Quote from Marcus Aurelius.
If we can reach moral excellence ,we can be honest, respectful,brave,forgiving,kind and much more.Virtues are positive values!! Absolutely true,abundance in our inner world!!
Thank you for distilling such great insights in just 15 minutes!
I can’t get enough of these !
It's still impressive that after centuries his words echoes as hope for so many of us
Ikr its crazy
@@deannahenry8925 thats what makes it good
Revenge is not necessary. I needed to hear this.
Empathy is so true. I need to work better on my empathy
Marcus Aurelius is my role model
Pace N Love!! Best way to lead a life!!🥰🥰🙏🙏
Many of these principles are aligned much with Sermon on the Mount.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sermon_on_the_Mount
Dude shut the fuck up
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01. Be Grateful
02. Show Empathy and take care of your life
03. Be Mindful
04. Practice Virtuousness
05. Willingly contribute
06. Revenge is not necessary
07. Have Patience
08. Maintain Social Relationships
09. Be genuine, modest and truthful
10. Accept and appreciate yourself
I really appreciate what you do with these videos. Thank you for your work and for spreading these valuable lessons.
My favoruite Marcus Aurelius Quote - "The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature is an amazing movie"
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rest in peace,
Brother.
I sometimes regard "Meditations" as a type of soliloquy, journal or diary. In these excerpts, taken as parcels, the teachings seem less so a journal... steady to yourself, stoic.
Even the cracks in the bread make it more appetizing!
Putting his work on my syllabus, thank you!
Yaaaaa... Am always present dinning in this empowering, educative ,enlightening deep insight.
Never be the same after listening to this
Something is in my control and something is not in my control.
The opinions of others, death, fame and fortune are not in my control. My judgement about events that happen to me in life and how I respond to them, my mind and my action are in my control. I have control over my mind-not outside events-realize this I will find strength to not merely bear what is necessary but love it.
Amor Fati is a proper welcome to the dawn of a new day.
Thank love 💗 thank
A great lesson of Marcus Aurelius.
Similar to AA 12 steps! I am constantly watching myself to be a better person. Need to work on not being be so thin skin, I know I cannot change people but I can change myself.
Love your videos!
He must have been one truly exceptional Emperor. Thanks!
Omg i love your amazing videos ...thank you so much
Thank you. 👍
Love the stoic philosophy
Really great summary here. Thanx for posting.
Thank you for this!
thank you marcus aurelius for helping me again 👍🏽
Marcus Aurelius is officially my role model
plus, both of us are taurus
Thank you so much
Awesome
Thank you
Thanks
Thank you... Great Content and Voice..!! Deserves much more views and likes...
Thank you so much for this video! It kind of changed my life
Yes Katka it is a beautiful video ,with much needed information for the world today.
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I AM my own god. I am responsible for all things that attract to me for I am energy and vibration. Everyday all day I am creating and recreating my own world by default.
yes
Purley logical and welcomed dearly
at first I was like "don't tell me how I should live my life!" but after watching I am like "oh"
The number 8 is a bit hard now.. For people no social interactions.. Just on chat messages
As an only child i have really accepted this as a norm...
The only great life social interactions i had is when i was a kid.. I played with my neighbors and friend's
Be grateful you were allowed to have just a bad day .
Well done!! I'm actually publishing content I just finished editing on this topic tonight, get refresher that made me confident that what I created was on the right track! Many Blessings Man, new subscriber due to this video.
I always found it strange as to how an emperor is so lonely. Perhaps the reason is because he had no equal? If I were the ruler of one the most power empires at that time I wouldn't keep his discipline.
Sadly it's true, great minds like Marcus Aurelius are lonely, because the vast majority of people are shallow.
He was a great emperor and I believe he wrote the meditations during times of rest in his military campaigns so there was a constant threat of death always over him
This guys lifestyle is not bad at all.
Guided meditation
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How about updating this to modern times where more people come from Dysfunction families and were not taught the proper ways of life early on. Only to be left with scars and work to undo the damage. Maybe not a majority but more than ever today. Drug use is a great example people are self medicating and it’s not because things are even close to ideal
Douglas Jones see point 4. Your parents were responsible for teaching you virtue as a child. But at a certain point you’re responsible for yourself.
No shit. Telling me to be grateful for shit I never had 😂 this guy seems like he got the jackpot on life. What about getting the opposite of that. It's all chemicals in our head so wtf is this shit gonna do?
@@Sl4ck0tik If you think Stoicism is just for people that have been dealt a good hand, you should look into Epictetus and Zeno of Citium.
Well in Marcus Aurelius time it was no great time either... Lots of war, death and scars too :x
How did Marcuz Aurelius know back then exactly what I would need in 2019? I think he might have been psychic lol
he was a GOD
Uani P or maybe he lives his life before yours 🤷♂️
Can you publish some PLATO animationed videos next?
do you mind referencing where you read that he was a philosopher King? as far as I know that was simply a concept created by Plato in Republic. the Roman empire did have kings early on but by the time Aurelious was born it had been an Empire for a while and thus had Roman Emperor's, not Kings.
Not even 10 seconds and the answer to what I been looking for. So simple yet so far away when it’s never brought to you
You battle with your self but the end you realize it was all for nothing
Excellent materials to listen to but the quality of sound is absolutely horrible in all these videos from this subscription, when you listening, especially in stereo system ie. in the car. Hope you guys can fix it. It sounds like mini skipping tracks.. scratch.
Who are the other five good emperors? I'd guess Augustus, since he had a time of peace in the empire for over 50 years.
I looked it up. It's Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.
He may have been but that may be because the times weren't as violent.
@@timo.10 probably... According to wikipedia the 5 good emperors were named by Machiavelli.
Try Jesus as a role model I cannot think of anyone else worthy enough. Love your videos full of wisdom. Thank you
Buddha would be equally as worthy.
Number 8 is damn difficult if you have trust issues
Did you reupload this or I'm just having a Déjà vu?
Haha no....hope you liked the video...
same here. I'm stoned now
I thought this was re uploaded also. Haha
@@PhilosophiesforLife cheeky
Some point must be missed, tuned down, simplified or over-extended. Because this doesn't sound stoic at all, sound like a philosophy of a nice guy, or more sound like "the secret".
The genuineness part was me for the longest time 🤦🏾♂️
Teaching my children and working my job is enough "donation to society".
MA has good suggestions but many don't follow it.
The guy was a Zen Buddhist pretty much.
I like this video very much but could you speak just a little slower? Everything is done quite fast and I feel slightly frantic at the end.
You can change the playback speed yourself. Click on those three dots on the top right.
Too bad grapes are actually grown to get something in return - seed dispersal. I wonder how that would have changed his thoughts or examples regarding that point.
Everything is the opposite when you have depression.
Well said brother.
Was he a happy man?
works well only when you are the ruler.
Well said. Life's much easier then.
Stay away from "nice" people, for they will lie to you in order to prevent hurting your feelings. Surround yourself with "mean" people, for they will be brutally honest when it is necessary.
Good stuff, but if you had talked slower, it would have been better.
shangpush listen faster
YT has a playback speed feature. You can check it out. :)
The more we allow AI into our lives, the more we become subservient to corporate power and big governments.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI
Beautifull
Me: ”what an einzelgänger ripoff”.
Also me: presses subscription.
What you’ve never seen a spineless before?
Marcus Aurelius, recovering from a head cold, looked robust and healthy as he took the center position of the forum He said: "I just got an album by Howard Melvin and the Blue Notes!."
My name is Maximus Desmus Meridius, leader of the armies to the north Leader of the Phoenix legions Loyal servant to the true emperor Markus Araleus...
And you say Marcus Aurelius is 5 good kings of Rome, Europe or dont say its world .....how you conclude this and where is the source ....
The cartoons and voice over sounds like an infomercial.
Unfortunate, as I think Marcus Aurelius was a profound soul.
Am really wondered you are using meditations word so frequently with out even referring Indian ancient Meditation.(5000+ Years) ......which is knows for source of Yoga and meditation.........Really its deviating people from real history..
I think this book is about Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and has very little to do with Indian history. The word Mediation also means "a written or spoken discourse expressing considered thoughts on a subject.". It doesn't mean Dhyana necessarily. Explore the knowledge of the whole world(other countries) brother and don't fall into propaganda of nationalism. It doesn't matter which country was better than another in ancient history. Because present India is vastly different from Ancient India, we should identify and correct our current problems of India rather than boasting about the long forgotten past. Learn from the past, focus on the present.
I am against the point, create social circle. These days you cannot tell what kind of person is socializing with you.
I took revenge man do I regret it
Also Read Stolen Legacy...George G.M.James🤔🕋Masjid
but if u dont know what a good man is, how can u become one?
This wasn't meant for environments with over 2 million people. Humans were meant to live in smaller numbers in order to feel that their actions matter.
Rome had over 2 million people...
@@danieleriksson5587 Ancient Rome covered millions of miles. What's known as Rome today probably had less than 1 million people.
@@dd032894 The empire had more than 10 million people so you are wrong
@@danieleriksson5587 over millions of miles
@@dd032894 And still over 10 million people in the empire ruled land so your first comment is invalid
Who says "being happy" is The Primary Goal of Life.
In this world we are a ll soldiers, face death every moment by every means, it can come anytime, "smiling", having that look on our faces in life is not happiness, death smiles. It is the shadow of Death on our Mortal lives.
Pity Marcus never saw Christ.
That other Ceaser was in charge then.
No good stoic can look at Christ's life and honestly refute it's purpose.
He was The Man of Sorrows.
Sorrow makes us see better than happiness ever could.
Unfortunatley, Fortunately.
You are making strong assumptions about what Stoicism isn’t that actually line up with Stoic beliefs. Life is thought and death is possible every waking minute therefore control your mind and live in tranquility with the reality of nature always in your mind also, however take pride in the meaningless of life and recongnize that fact to live every waking moment with content and love for the nature of things. The Stoic philosophy is very religious in actuality and I suggest you study the works by Zeno,Seneca, Marcus and Epitectus before you jump to conclusions about who knows how to live life. After all the point is to be tranquil, not right
How to live your life.First,go out and get one.Second,start living it
Ted! I Am Gonna Teach You How To Live, Marcus Aurelius we met at urinal!
Maybe Trump and the Republicans as well as the Democrats should read Book 9. Deals in Truth, deceit, and lies. There are other books that stress helping people as well
Philosophy of rich man..
on west was stoicism and democrasy , on east was hamurabi laws,buddhism,confucuonism and daosism...and there was a peace..what the hell religions came and created dark ages..those prophets who maybe existed said some very good and also ugly things ,did bad or good maybe ..even king david of israel,he wrote and did evil bs too which are not exposed..how many lives would have been saved if this age of religion never came and tolarance ,humanism would prevail more
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I wonder what his slaves thought about him and his meditations.
Total genuineness? all the time?? with everyone you meet??? Totally impractical in civilized life. Best become a recluse, hermit, holyman, etc. Alone. In the desert. (Read "Civilization and its Discontents.")