Marcus Aurelius: Meditations for a Quiet Mind | A Sleep Story from the Pioneers
Published: September 23, 2026
Duration: 1:20:36
Fall asleep with Marcus Aurelius in a calm, carefully researched journey through the Meditations, his surviving letters and the ordinary human difficulties behind Stoic philosophy.
Tonight, we enter an imagined Roman room: a table beside a darkened window, a shaded lamp, an open book and several letters. The setting is imagined, but the writings are real.
We begin with the young Marcus making a playful case against sleep in a letter to his teacher, Fronto. He finds examples, builds his argument and then, having said quite enough against sleep, announces that he is going...
Tonight, we enter an imagined Roman room: a table beside a darkened window, a shaded lamp, an open book and several letters. The setting is imagined, but the writings are real.
We begin with the young Marcus making a playful case against sleep in a letter to his teacher, Fronto. He finds examples, builds his argument and then, having said quite enough against sleep, announces that he is going...