"Meditate often on the interconnectedness and mutual interdependence of all things in the universe. For in a sense, all things are mutually woven together and therefore have an affinity for each other-for one thing follows after another according to their tension of movement, their sympathetic stirrings, and the unity of all substance."-MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.38
(“우주 만물의 상호 연결성과 상호 의존성에 대해 자주 명상하세요. 어떤 의미에서 모든 사물은 서로 엮여 있기 때문에 서로 친화력을 가지고 있으며, 움직임의 긴장, 동정적 동요, 모든 물질의 통일성에 따라 한 사물이 다른 사물을 뒤따르기 때문입니다."-마르쿠스 아우렐리우스, 명상, 6.38)
Anne Lamott once observed that all writers "are little rivers running into one lake," all contributing to the same big project. The same is true in many industries-though sadly, even inside the same company, people selfishly forget they're working together. As human beings we all breathe the atoms that made up our ancestors and flow into the same earth when we die.
Over and over again, the Stoics reminded themselves of the inter- connectedness of life. ...