Day 151: The Unlived Life—Marcus Aurelius and Jung on Becoming Whole | Dying Every Day
Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) · Jun 10, 2026 · 10:47
Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations)
Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) · Jun 10, 2026 · 10:47
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Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 151.
The Meditations are usually read as the record of a man who had mastered his philosophy—reminders to himself to stay on the path he had already found. That reading is not wrong. But it is incomplete.
What Marcus does across these pages, again and again, is similar, not necessarily the same, to what Carl Jung would describe eighteen centuries later: looking directly at the parts of himself he would rather not see, naming them, and refusing to let them operate on him from the dark. [...]
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