Life according to Nature. Marcus Aurelius 2.9

An important teaching of Stoic philosophy is that all life happens in accordance with the grand plan of Nature. This plan is not necessarily imagined as having or depending on any personal or conscientious agency. Instead, it emerges organically over time as plants and animals interact in environments built by the ongoing recombination of air, fire, earth, and water. The Stoics saw emergent order here as an expression of the great Reason or Word, of which our own rational capacity is but a tiny shadow. In every significant interaction, you want to watch yourself closely, finding a place where you fit into the dance of elements that was going on before you were born and will continue after you depart. When you find your place in the dance, you are as happy and as good as it is possible for you to be. The dance is always there, and you can always join it. <Greek>.

Τούτων ἀεὶ δεῖ μεμνῆσθαι, τίς ἡ τῶν ὅλων φύσις καὶ τίς ἡ ἐμὴ καὶ πῶς αὕτη πρὸς ἐκείνην ἔχουσα καὶ ὁποῖόν τι μέρος ὁποίου τοῦ ὅλου οὖσα καὶ ὅτι οὐδεὶς ὁ κωλύων τὰ ἀκόλουθα τῇ φύσει, ἧς μέρος εἶ, πράσσειν τε ἀεὶ καὶ λέγειν.

I must always remember what the nature of the universe is. What my own nature is, and how it relates to the nature of the whole that contains it—how its partiality finds expression in that whole. Nobody ever prevents you from acting and speaking in accord with nature, of which you are part.