Marcus Aurelius. To himself (№ 336714)

Looking for secluded places in the village, on the seaside, in the mountains. Used to and you really miss it. But too it's gone, because you can at any time to retire into yourself. For nowhere does not find a man more calm and peaceful refuge but in your own heart, especially if that person has inside themselves, lost in contemplation of what he is in a state of complete rest. The rest I call nothing like the order of the [inside]. So always provides itself, the shelter and upgrade yourself. Let them be brief and elementary principal provisions, which, if they occur, will be sufficient to clear you of any resentment and back already not ruffling from that to which you [constantly] come back [with the thought]. After all, what annoys you? The depravity of people? Taking into consideration the idea that intelligent beings created for each other, and that tolerance is part of justice, and that they unwittingly wrong, and that how many have lived in enmity, suspicion, hatred, quarrels died [ "stretched her legs"], return to ashes, you don't have to be annoyed. And you're upset because you paid a whole? So renew [in the mind] both possibilities: either Providence or atoms, and all the other evidence, which show that the world is like the city. But you do corporal? Then take in consideration that the understanding, if it is once assembled themselves [together] and realized their strength, do not mix smoothly or fitfully moving breath* and all you hear about suffering and pleasure and as agreed. But, maybe you are tormented by the vanity? Look how fast everything is forgotten, and like a gaping abyss of infinite eternity beyond and on this side of your life, and how empty [posthumous] the echo, and how changeable and unclear in the opinion of those that seem slavoslovyaschie, and how narrow the space, which is limited to [your reputation]. Because the whole earth is a point, and how small her area [is] this place. And then, how many and what they are, slavoslovyaschie you? So do not forget about leaving this part of himself and above all do not throw and do not strain yourself, but be free and look at things as a man, as a person, as a citizen, as a mortal being. And among the most common truths to which you should apply, let them be these two. The first is that objects do not relate to the soul, but stand firmly without, confusion there is only one internal perception. The second is that everything you see, will soon undergo a transformation and will no longer exist. And [constantly ponder over] how many transformations a witness you have been. The world is changing, life is perception.