Marcus Aurelius - Meditations - Book Two

I want to cry reading it.

Some passages to share:

"... death and life, fame and ignominy, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty - all these come to good and bad alike, but they are not in themselves either right or wrong: neither then are they inherent good or evil."

"What is death? Someone looking at death per se, and applying the analytical power of his mind to divest death of its associated images, will conclude then that it is noting more than a function of nature - and if anyone is frightened of a function of nature, he is a mere child. And death is not a function of nature, but also to her benefit."

"Even if you were destined to live three thousand years, or ten times that long, nevertheless remember that no one loses any life other than the one he lives, or lives any life other than the one he loses."

Meditations is the only book I have thus far been allowed to read aloud to the boy by the boy, after what he calls his '3 silly books'. He like the drone of it and it puts him to sleep. But today, with such new life breathing at my side, I find it extremely difficult to read about death.