/lit/ bros I need help. This is the first philosophy book that I’ve tried to read and I feel that I am struggling to grasp it. It’s written in verses which tend to be written quite poetically which is nice until I try to understand what he’s saying. So for each passage I read it, I analyze each line, and I come to an understanding. Then it turns out to be the same shit he’s said earlier but worded differently! When I close the book and I walk away I feel that I haven’t absorbed any of what I just read. Has anyone else had this problem? Is the book difficult for everyone to read? Should I just read some easier books and come back to this one? Help :(

Getting filtered by meditations? It's over bro. Reading isn't for you. You're an idiot.

>>21971688 (OP)

It's not a philosophy book it's a dad gum DIARY.

You're reading the journal of an emperor who never thought civilization would devolve to the point that his fucking commonplace book / diary would be held up as... philosophy.

Read Seneca, On the Shortness of Life and Other Writings.

Read Epicurus.

Read Lucretius for verse.

But yeah that's a diary, son. 

A diary.

You're reading someone's diary.

Anyways that's why it repeats and did what you're saying it did 

Didn't your copy have an introduction? Heh. Should've told you in the introduction that you were reading a diary and that he's repeating himself, trying to learn those things himself ya know?

;-)

The meditations isn’t properly a philosophy book. It’s more like philosophical diary. Presumably, he wrote small portions at a time, spending a lot of time mulling the ideas over. I think the best way to read books like this is to sort of read one bite a day or one bite per morning and one bite per evening and spend some time thinking about it.

God everyone in this thread is a dumbass who thinks there not, read this fucking book it actually applies to ur modern llife and is quick and easy to read on the shitter, dont get discouraged that the other virgins in the comments know how to read shake spear and you dont

>>21971688 (OP)

Damn filtered by one of the easiest to fully digest books I've ever read, your brain must be rotted to shit kek. At least you absorbed something even if you don't realise it, your understanding will only increase from here, give it time

Say what you will, but it's hard to take what you say seriously when you make these kinds of grammatical and spelling errors.

Ryan Holiday is a bitch. Use to follow him on Instagram. Would frequently appose stoic teaching to comply with social narratives.

You are a dumbass who cant drink from the source and needs some new aged grifter faggot to filter feed easy philosophy to you.

>>21971688 (OP)

young anon...just meditate on it for awhile while you're going about your day...it's literally right there in the title
