Marcus Aurelius Quotes

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain. The seasons. All those things. You learn to respect everything because you are everything. If you respect yourself, you respect all things.

Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these wonderful poetic images of mythology are referring to something in you. When your mind is trapped by the image out there so that you never make the reference to yourself, you have misread the image.

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

Only a few people seem to realize that social harmony and peace with nature, between people, and within the individual only can come about when the material and spiritual realms are reconciled.

We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.

Don't swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching.

Man and nature belong together in their created glory – in their tragedy and in their salvation.

The world is a living being - one nature, one soul. Keep that in mind.

Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together.

I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.

In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful

Begin to see yourself in all other beings.

He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.

A soul who is not close to nature is far away from what is called spirituality. In order to be spiritual one must communicate, and especially one must communicate with nature; one must feel nature.

Water is life is love is life is water.

To practice Aikido fully you must calm the spirit and go back to the origin.

When you look out of your eyes at nature happening out there...You're looking at you.

How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.

Everything is connected. The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality. All is part of totality, and in this totality man finds his hozro, his way of walking in harmony, with beauty all around him.

Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.