I've already included this text elsewhere in the programs I’m proposing you. And that is quite normal. Many of the writings of our elders take up many themes. And even though I offer you programs by topic in the app, you should know that the work we do on your mind, your perception, is basically global. It permeates your whole being and should echo into all dimensions of your life.
In this section of Book 12 of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, he tells himself to turn away from everything that others do or say.
It's a short text, so I recommend you read it without haste.
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“There are three things of which you are compounded: body, vital spirit, mind.
Two of these are your own in so far as you must take care of them, but only the third is in the strict sense your own.
So, if you separate from yourself,
namely from your mind,
all that others do or say,
all that you yourself did or said,
all that troubles you in the future,
all that as part of the bodily envelope or natural spirit attaches to you without your will, and all that the external circumfluent vortex whirls round, so that your mind power, freed from the chain of necessity, lives purified and released by itself—doing what is just, willing what comes to pass, and speaking what is true;
if you separate, I say, from this governing self what is attached to it by sensibility, and what of time is hereafter or has gone by, and make yourself like the sphere of Empedocles, 'Rounded, rejoicing in the solitude which is about it',
and practise only to live the life you are living, that is the present, then
you will have it in your power at least to live out the time that is left until you die, untroubled and with kindness and reconciled with your own good Spirit.”