Introduction
Meditating on the Meditations: A series based on the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. In this series Ijaz Pir discussed his views on the each verse. Each episode is based on a verse from Meditations.

Verse
1:8 “From Apollonius: moral freedom, the certainty to ignore the dice of fortune, and have no other perspective, even for a moment, than that of reason alone; to be always the same man, unchanged in sudden pain, in the loss of a child, in lingering sickness; to see clearly in his living example that a man can combine intensity and relaxation; not to be impatient in explanation; the observance of a man who clearly regarded as the least of his gifts his experience and skill in communicating his philosophical insights; the lesson of how to take apparent favours from one’s friends, neither compromised by them nor insensitive in their rejection.”