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EPISODE · Jun 26, 2026 · 7 MIN

Marcus Aurelius Morning Preparation: Stoic Affirmations from the Meditations

from The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks · host Jon Brooks

During the 170s of the common era, while ruling an empire and often away from Rome, Marcus Aurelius wrote notes to himself in Greek. What survived is not a public book. It is a private notebook, the Meditations, sentences a man wrote to remind himself how to live.This is a short morning practice built from eight lines drawn from the Meditations. Some are close to verbatim, others are rendered in modern English to be repeatable in the mouth and the mind. Between each line there is a little silence. At the end, one quiet commitment for the day ahead.These were notes he wrote to himself. We are not the first to need them.Free 7-Day Stoic Challenge: stoicchallenge.coThe Stoic Vault: stoicvault.com

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