Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet.
In his private journal, Marcus encourages a cosmic perspective to diminish the perceived importance of individual matters.
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But everything else, whether it is in the power of thy will or not, is only lifeless ashes and smoke.
And how small a part of the whole substance; and how small a part of the universal soul; and on what a small clod of the whole earth thou creepest!
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