Themes

What Marcus Aurelius has to say about the situations people actually bring: one page for each, about the difficulty first, with two or three passages quoted as he wrote them and cited by book and section, and one question at the end. These are not a table of contents for Meditations, and they are not advice.

• When things have changed
  Unwanted change
• After an argument
  Conflict with someone
• When someone has criticized you
  Being criticised or dismissed
• A hard decision
  A hard decision
• Difficult people
  Dealing with difficult people
• Too much at once
  Feeling overwhelmed
• The thing you keep putting off
  Putting things off
• Not good enough
  Self-doubt
• When it did not work
  A setback or failure
• Waiting to find out
  Uncertainty about the future