Get out of your own way!

 

Get out of the way!

pg.31 Meditations - Marcus Aurelius

In the wrestling exercise, another man has torn you with nails
inflicted a wound, dashed your head
Do you suspect your opponent to be a treacherous fellow? Or treat as an enemy or with suspicion?

No! - but you quietly learn to get out of the way and to deal with it

let your behavior be like this
in many parts of your life
Let us overlook many things in those
who are like antagonists in the Gym

for its in our own power
to get out of the way
and to have no suspicion or hatred!

Authors

Marcus Aurelius