The Daily Stoic - Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Day 39
November 20th - Behold, Now as Ever
"If you've seen the present, you've seen all things, from time immemorial into all of eternity. For everything that happens is related and the same."
-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.3-7
From the Author:
"The events that will transpire today are the same as the things that have always occured. People living and dying, animals living and dying, clouds rolling in and rolling out, air sucked in and sucked out, a quotation from the moments that have come before and will come ever after.
This idea is expressed nowhere more beautifully than in the Christianity hymn 'Gloria Patri'. 'As it was in the beginning, and now, and always, and to the ages of ages."
This thought is not supposed to be depressing or uplifting. It's just a fact. However, it can have a calming, centering effect. No need to get excited, no need to wait on pins and needles. If you haven't seen this before, someone else has. That can be a relief."
In the greatest, most macro of scales, everything can be summed up in "birth, life, death". This is an endless cycle, and nothing changes. As we focus down the scales, we begin to see things that have also always happened. Love, unity, hate, war. Endless cycles for as long as earth has existed. Zoom in a bit closer, and we start to see successes and failures, small and large, of people, revolutions lead by some. But again it's not new. Small trials and tribulations for every day people, businesses opening and closing, partners loved and lost, animals cherished and grieved. It's all happened before, and will always happen.
The trees and grass grow, the animals and men cut them down to cycle them into food and habitation. As always.
We have the internal knowledge, or esoteric connection, to everything that has happened, and throughout history we have always prevailed. Someone has beaten the odds while working through the very thing you may be going through now. You've seen this before, you know how to resolve it.
Shevacai
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