《沉思录·卷十·顺应整体》第18条
Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and in change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted by nature as to die.
注释摘要
这一条是奥勒留对宇宙万象的直观描述与哲学观察的浓缩,他要求自己把目光投向一切存在物,不是停留在它们的表面形态,而是看穿其当下正在发生的本质状态。他说,你要看,要看一切存在之物,而且要观察到,它已经在消解之中、在变化之中了。他用了一个非常生理性的比喻,说这些东西仿佛是在腐烂,或者说是在消散。这两个词对应着两种斯多葛物理学所承认的消亡方式,一种是复合物分解为其…