The Living World. Marcus Aurelius 6.25

 Marcus Aurelius imagines the world as a vast living organism, with cosmic body and soul moved by events like those smaller events that move us, and our faculties.

Ἐνθυμήθητι πόσα κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν ἀκαριαῖον χρόνον ἐν ἑκάστῳ ἡμῶν ἅμα γίνεται σωματικὰ ὁμοῦ καὶ ψυχικά, καὶ οὕτως οὐ θαυμάσεις εἰ πολὺ πλείω, μᾶλλον δὲ πάντα τὰ γινόμενα ἐν τῷ ἑνί τε καὶ σύμπαντι, ὃ δὴ κόσμον ὀνομάζομεν, ἅμα ἐνυφίσταται.

Consider how many events take place simultaneously in each one of us, altering body and soul together in the same brief moment, and you will not marvel that so many more events—all that happen, in fact—occur together in the singular whole that we call the world.