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You should meditate often on the connection of all things in the universe and their relationship to each other. In a way all things are interwoven and therefore have a family feeling for each other: one thing follows another in due order through the tension of movement, the common spirit inspiring them, and the unity of all being.

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6: 38, trans. Martin Hammond, Penguin edition

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