Marcus Aurelius · Philosophy

Love Your Fate

Marcus Aurelius’s practice of accepting and even loving whatever happens - not grim resignation, but the active embrace of one’s fate as the will of a rational universe.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned Marcus’s practice of accepting and loving whatever happens as the will of nature. His teacher in philosophy, Epictetus, had taught the same discipline of desire in sharper, more practical form. State how Epictetus framed it.

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