Marcus Aurelius on Anxiety

Daniel Melvin (DHM1956@gnn.com)
Fri, 17 Nov 1995 22:40:04

Meditation No. 32

Many of the anxieties that harass you are superfluous: being but
creatures of your own fancy, you can rid yourself of them and
expand into an ampler region, letting your thought sweep over the
entire universe, contemplating the illimitable tracts of eternity,
marking the swiftness of change in each created thing, and
contrasting the brief span between birth and dissolution with the
endless aeons that precede the one and the infinity that follows
the other.

-- Marcus Arelius, c. A.D. 167