How To Read Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations (the greatest book ever written)

When i was a kid i watched gladiator and it gave me a feeling like no other movie has been able to do. Now as a man i study Marcus Aurelius and have been busy with the bible when i have time, but have just finished the new testament, and downloaded meditations. 🙏STAY BLESSED 🙏

Why the musak?

Is noone going to talk about how the fireplace in the background is a chimney made of books...that cant be safe

Thank you for your selfless sharing and love for the craft…in times of trouble, without strong family values or a father figure, I often naturally drift into the negatives and lose sight of how lucky it is to even be alive.

Stoicism has become my anchor to a far more optimistic day to day 🙏

Would love to read this book 100 times at some point in my life 🫡

Glad to know I am not crazy after all

Read the Bible next

If I could invite any 10 people in history to a dinner party, they would probably be Marcus Aurelius and 9 Latin-English translators.

Marcus Aurelius wrote his Meditations 1900 & some-odd years ago. And so many people, still today, think of these long dead men & women; teachers, poets, generals, soldiers & slaves as somehow less intelligent, less creative, or simply "less" than we are today. To read Marcus Aurelius is to realize and, perhaps, appreciate how little the human race has "evolved" in those intervening centuries.

I recently read this with the mindfulness workbook on amz called 30 Days to Reduce Anxiety by Harper Daniels. It's so important to clear the mind of expectations and stressful things.

We are not sure that Marcus Aurelius was really that way. Maybe those were some of his thoughts and what a complex being he was.... this is the reason on why you shall not aim to be like the writing but let the writing be like you

One thing I’ve never understood and not been judgmental but how is it that his son became a tyrant

Does budda usually have a swastika on the chest?

Step 1: Pick up book
Step 2: Read

I am ❤loving your chanel. Its truly inspiring but more than that - helping me make improvements in my thinking and behavior ! Bravo. Thank you

old english doesn’t scare me 💀💀 i attend a baptist church in texas. this is just secular version of the KJV 💀💀 Great video 😂😂

Ryan… or anyone that is reading…I have a translation in Spanish edited by Alejandra Valverde and in English the one by George Lang….
In book 1 paragraph IV the translations contradict each other . It’s what he learned from his great grandfather… in English it says : From my great grandfather, not to have frequented public schools, and to have had good teachers at home, and to know that on such things a man should spend liberally.
Spanish version :
De mi bisabuelo, aprendí el no menospreciar las escuelas públicas y, en casa, el buscar a los mejores maestros, persuadido de que en la educación no se debe perdonar gasto. ( literal translation: From my great grandfather I learned not to look down on public schools, and at home, to seek the best teachers, persuaded by the notion that on such things one should spend freely.

Hi which one should we read?

You feel guilty holding a sheepskin copy of Marcus Aurelius from the 1700s, well then send it my way..geezus..I was taking u seriously.

"How to read Meditations" How so supremely arrogant a title??? Dude seriously, how dare you? Don't you understand that the title of this video is so antithesis of Marcus Aurellius it's ridiculous. And he was not "the most powerful man in the world" He was most powerful 'leader' in Western world!! You make so many assumptions as to how Marcus would "feel" or "think" when it's actually IMPOSSIBLE for any of us to? Just suggest people read and take away their own thoughts, you can't guide people as to what he thinks or what you think he thinks

I have read Meditations a paltry three times and love it but to call it the greatest book ever written? You seem to approach Stoicism with an almost religious fervour and that seems to me to be something to put you on guard.

get a wider lens

The Bible is better

So it's like the Bible

In every generation men rediscover Aurelius. It just show how timeless his work his.

The Enchiridion and discourses by Epictetus is even better

It's not a "book" ... It's a diary

Mate I'd love you to bring your reading to the Hebrew and Christian scriptures...the bible. The most significant book most read book most published book in the world. Ever.

It looks like Gregory Hays have two different translations. Which should you choose?

The black and red one with the bird?

Or

The one with Marcus Aurelius on the cover (the one Ryan has taken notes in the video)?

Please help 🙏🏼

Thanks, I've been dipping into Meditations, it's very inspiring. Also Epictetus. Tom Wolfe's book
A Man in Full stars Epictetus, if you haven't read it! ( btw, don't Americans say 'bedclothes' ?)

stoicism and self-denial was trending in antiquity.

All the old books I don't think it's publically available.

Subtitles please 🙏🏻

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ive been doing my job for 3 months
day in night in morning in morning out

my twitter is my book

Run to your nature ; Make people Run from you. APEX PREDATOR UNLOCKED

I SWEAR TO GOD - i am this man's reincarnation and im not even 25

Love from India, I am here after reading 2 parts of this book (out of 12 ) .

OH the internet! telling people they are doing things wrong and how you can fix it with 3 easy steps.

(number 2 will shock you!)

Ryan is a psyop and is brainwashing you to serve master.

dawg u worship this man like jesus, one should not idol worship. the best book ever written is the bible. christ is king. the gospels say the same shit it was copied from them.

Marcus Aurelius deserves a place in our history books. It's a shame he's not even a single mention

How was those manuscripts preserved ..it'sinteresting to me

I have the penguins classics version but.. reading the book 5 section 1 about it.. I was shocked when I read it the second time and understood what it meant

No bud the Holy Bible is but this is a very good book I would put 2nd. And honestly if people just read the bible, Meditations, and Sun Tzu all the time, then this world would be a better place. Those are the only books you need.

You should read Nahj Al Balagha of Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib (peace be upon him)

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