Christians call it the “recollected heart.” In Sanskrit it is called “smirti,” or “that which is remembered.” I’m reading Jacob Needleman and John P. Piazza’s new introduction and translation of the meditations of Marcus Aurelius and I’m learning just how much this Roman emperor—whom nobody could accuse of dropping out of society (he [...]
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