In everything always observe what the thing is which produces for thee an appearance, and resolve it by dividing it into the formal, the material, the purpose, and the time within which it must end.
Marcus Aurelius provides a method for analyzing perceptions by breaking down phenomena into their constituent parts and purpose.
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But intellect in a peculiar manner tends to that which is of the same kin, and combines with it, and the feeling for communion is not interrupted.
There is one light of the sun, though it is interrupted by walls, mountains, and other things infinite.
But it is inconsistent with honoring reason and God to be troubled because by death a man will be deprived of the other things.
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