Marcus Aurelius ruled through civil war, plague, and famine that killed him and devastated Rome. He taught three Stoic disciplines: objective judgment, unselfish action, and willing acceptance. Practicing these in the present moment is all that's required.
Marcus Aurelius famously was the most powerful person in the world and ruled through a time of civil war, an attempted usurpation of the throne through natural disasters, including years of famine, a pandemic or epidemic called the Antonine Plague, Antonine Plague, which claimed his life in the end, but devastated the city of Rome and much of the Roman Empire. He navigated the challenges that come with the court, the Senate, the people. And so says in one of, one of his discussions about the, the three Stoic disciplines is, and this is my, my favorite of his articulations of this: objective judgment now at this very moment, unselfish action now at this very moment, willing acceptance now at this very moment of all external events. That's all you need. And so in this passage, he's referencing the three Stoic disciplines that in the Gregory Hayes translation, he calls them the discipline of perception, the discipline of action, and the discipline of will.
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