—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 7.47
[Holiday, Ryan; Hanselman, Stephen. The Daily Stoic (p. 131). Profile. Kindle Edition.]
The stars in the sky have the ability to fill us with awe and wonder. The stars are distant sparks glowing in the night sky embedded in the cloth of the universe. The stars, unimaginably huge and old, reach out to the heart and the mind and the body, pulling us, speaking to us, running with us as we rush headlong into the future, not knowing what it will bring.
The stars and we are made of the same stuff. Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, could imagine that we feel an infinitesimal smallness in comparison to the vast universe, but on the other hand, an extreme connectedness to this larger whole.
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In the meantime, take care of yourself and if you can, someone else, too, because as Adam Smith said, “we naturally desire not only to be loved but to be lovely”.
Stargazing Guy 
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