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Meditations · Book IV · 40
Book IV · 40

Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the co-operating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations IV.40. Translated by George Long (1862). The Stoic Library.