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Let go of attachments from "summary" of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands, and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are obstructions. Remember that what is insulting is not the person who insults you, but the judgment about them. And you have power over that. Wipe it out. Stay alert. Recognize your own power. You can stand up to your impulses, read their labels, see their price. Just one more thing and the work of a good person is complete: to rise above the contempt of the contemptible without being contaminated by them. It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own. If a god appeared to us - or a wise human being, even - and prohibited us from concealing our thoughts or imagining anything without immediately shouting it out, we wouldn't make it through a single day. That's how much we value other people's opinions - instead of our own. It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own. It's ridiculous to go around putting out fires - or trying to control the uncontrollable. If you are not willing to bear down on your mind and stifle it when it starts to stray from the path, you will never find the path. Let it go. It's nothing to you. Let it go. It's nothing to you. Don't be confused. All things are connected. All things follow the same path. All things are related.
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