Book VI.13
Famous: roasted meat is a dead animal; Falernian wine is grape juice; sex is friction and ejaculation. Stripping illusory grandeur.
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From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
A signature spiritual exercise: dismantling impressive things into their bare physical components to dissolve false value.
Book IV.21
Decomposition of bodies; the order of nature.
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Define and describe every object that presents itself, to see what it is in its naked reality.
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