Pieces of the Whole. Marcus Aurelius 4.14
Life
is a journey back to Nature, our father and mother, with reasons
beyond ours. Our reason is just a little piece of the great reason of
the universe, a small echo of the cosmic Word.
Ἐνυπέστης
ὡς μέρος. ἐναφανισθήσῃ τῷ γεννήσαντι·
μᾶλλον δὲ ἀναληφθήσῃ εἰς τὸν λόγον
αὐτοῦ τὸν σπερματικὸν κατὰ μεταβολήν.
You
have existed heretofore only in part, a piece cut from the whole that
produced you. But you will return to that whole eventually,
disappearing into it. In other words: you will be absorbed by the
cosmic reason that sows itself throughout the universe with every
change.