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 who are the ruins it's actually in book
six that I found the meditation that I
would build my own first book of stone
philosophy around the impediment to
action advances action what stands in
the way becomes the way he says look
stuff can get in the way you can be
impeded he says but nothing can impede
your intentions or your dispositions he
says the mind can convert to its own
purposes the obstacle to our acting
that's the power of stoicism that we
always have the opportunity opportunity
to practice a virtue we don't choose
where we are we don't choose what's
happening but if you accept the obstacle
and work with what you're given Mark's
realist says in meditations an
alternative will present itself another
piece of what you're trying to assemble
action by action acceptance can seem
like this weakness that it's stopping
you from moving forward in fact
acceptance means this door is closed now
I can go try this other door you first
have to accept that the obstacle exists
that it is real that it has constraints
or impediments or difficulties to then
decide what you're going to do about it
you're going to go around are you going
to go over you're going to use the
weight of it against itself it's an
opportunity to do this other thing you
couldn't have done under ordinary
circumstances acceptance is not passive
resignation it's the first step in
taking an active approach and Marcus
returns to this theme over and over and
over again in meditations in one passage
he says a strong stomach digests what it
eats a fire turns what you throw on top
of it into flame and brightness and heat
his point is we can use our obstacles as
fuel the things that happen to us in
life are opportunities this is the
essence of stoicism this is our chance
whatever it is it might not be the
virtue we wanted to practice might not
be the virtue we're most comfortable
practicing but it's nevertheless an
opportunity to be great I'm remember I
was once talking to the great Robert
Greene and I asked him what one of his
favorite passages for Marcus Williams's
meditations was he said it was the one
where Marcus Aurelius is talking about
he's looking at this big feast and he
says oh that's a dead bird said oh
that's dead pig oh this wine is rotted
grapes I said Robert why did you like
that and he said that's what I try to do
in my writing I try to to deconstruct
things to take away the preconceived
notions that's actually what Marcus says
he says it's about stripping the things
of the legend that encrusts them about
seeing them as they actually are I think
that's not only what a philosopher has
to do but I think that's what a great
writer like Robert Greene does I call
this contemptuous Expressions you know
these things kind of loom over us we go
oh Harvard is so important look at the
fancy people that go there look how hard
it is look how expensive it is but also
you could look at the idiots who've
graduated from Harvard the the monsters
that have come out of there right you
could be like oh the president's the
most prestigious important job in the
world but look at some of the people
who've been present look how incompetent
they were you're supposed to see things
for what they are strip them of the
legend that encrust them see them as
they are the same goes for like some
fancy car or you know some important
position it's not what people think it
is you have to strip it bare you have to
see it for what it is and Marcus
Aurelius was doing this even with his
own purple cloak the thing that
signified he was the emperor he said
this is just a regular cloak dyed with
shellfish blood you've seen it as it
actually was which is such a critical
practice the famous victim from Lord
octum is that power corrupts and
absolute power corrupts absolutely
what's remarkable about Marcus Aurelius
is that he's perhaps the only exception
to this rule that we know he's given
absolute power what is the first thing
he does with it he gives half of it away
to his stepbrother he isn't corrupted by
it it's a remarkable Testament to the
power of this philosophy the idea of
what stoicism can make a person and and
that's not an accident in meditations
Marcus who really warns himself against
being caesarified of being dyed purple
of being changed by the power and fame
and money that the position has given
him and we all have to be worried about
being caesarified or died purple we have
to be worried about being changed by by
the the number of followers that we have
by the promotion that we just got by the
famous name that we inherited you're not
special the rules do apply to you you're
not better than anyone else power
doesn't have to corrupt what it can do
is reveal who you actually are in one
point in meditations Marcus really tells
himself to take Plato's view to zoom out
to see things from above and he does
that he talks about how enormous armies
fighting over a border a whole country
could be not that dissimilar from a far
enough view to ants fighting over a
piece of food on the ground
it's beautiful and quite impressive that
he could come to this point of view
because in Marcus's time the highest he
could have gotten off the ground was
like a couple story building or maybe
the top of a mountain he didn't have the
access of a to an airplane like all of
us do you know he would have never seen
the Blue Marble photo which showed Earth
from space but when you get to Plato's
view you're just reminded how
inconsequential most of the things we
get upset about are and then you are
also reminded of how interconnected and
interdependent and together we all are
Marcus says this too that the borders
don't matter that
vast oceans no matter we're all in the
same thing together that we are tied