Or 'reading' again. I don't usually bother to find the actual edition of a book, but although I'd already five starred this one that rating was a familiarity with the book over 20 years. Something to return to.

I am now actually in possession of this particular and fairly recent edition. Very good introduction, excellent notes with cross-referencing, and a very useful index of key words, concepts and ideas.

The Meditations still has, I believe, something to offer us, more in the way of agenda setting and consequent centred reflection. However, my current reading is more to do with an interest in rhetoric (hence my return recently to James' The Varieties of Religious Experience: how aphorisms and the aphoristic style may often be beguiling but have little other than spiritual entertainment to offer. Actually, there is a lot in Marcus Aurelius I plain dislike, although, to be fair, his own self deprecation does work to dilute any assumed sense of authority, and his own confessed fallibility does make him more human.