Morning Text for Reflection:
Say to yourself first thing in the morning:
today I might meet with people who are meddling, ungrateful, aggressive,
treacherous, malicious and unsocial. All this has afflicted them through their
ignorance of true good and evil. But I have seen that the nature of good is
what is right, and the nature of evil what is wrong; and I have reflected that
the nature of the offender himself is akin to my own - not a kinship of blood
or seed, but a sharing in the same mind, the same fragment of divinity.
Therefore I cannot be harmed by any of them, as none will infect me with their
wrong. Not can I be angry with my fellow human being or hate him. We were born
for cooperation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of upper
and lower teeth. So to work in opposition to one another is against nature: and
anger or rejection is opposition.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2.1
ALSO - Perform the Daily Morning Meditation!
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