I loved the introduction. I think, as much as I enjoyed the actual meditations. I read the meditations first as I was reading someone else’s diary. It was like going inside Marcus Aurelius mind. The content is far from autobiographical. It is more about a (not so organised) set of beliefs, that the emperor noted for himself. I guess to get through difficult times. The tone isn’t optimistic but realistic I would say. Not everything resonated with me but the paragraphs that did, were wow! I liked the meditations on death, on how he thought we should face the inevitable. Not to fear but to embrace it.
The introduction was excellent. It gave so much context to what I had read and further reading… maybe Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic or Hellenistic Philosophy by A.A. Long will follow. Though this second one touches on other topics than Stoicism too.
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