See the universe. Marcus Aurelius 5.24

Marcus looks out at the universe, dwarfing himself and all humanity with life and being too big for our mortal experience to grasp. Here is wonder, and terror, and surrender, for all of us who look with him.


Μέμνησο τῆς συμπάσης οὐσίας, ἧς ὀλίγιστον μετέχεις, καὶ τοῦ σύμπαντος αἰῶνος, οὗ βραχὺ καὶ ἀκαριαῖόν σοι διάστημα ἀφώρισται, καὶ τῆς εἱμαρμένης, ἧς πόστον εἶ μέρος;


Remember the vastness of all material existence, of which you possess only the smallest portion, and think upon the age of the universe, an age wherein your own little life occupies but a brief moment. Call to mind then the fate that binds all things together: what is your share in the web she weaves?