Meditations: Timeless Wisdom Distilled

by Gill Hasson, Marcus Aurelius

224 pages, Hardcover

Published September 30, 2025

About the author

Gill Hasson is the author of Mindfulness: Be mindful. Live in the moment works with people from diverse backgrounds and situations. Her key motivation is her belief in the ability of people to positively change their way of thinking - about life, other people, and themselves.

She is a freelance journalist and writes articles on personal development and relationships for a variety of magazines, including Psychologies and Take A Break, and for a number of websites.

As well as delivering adult education courses in personal development, she is an associate tutor for the University of Sussex where she teaches career and personal development and academic study skills. She delivers training in child and adolescent development to preschool, youth and social workers, teachers and parents.

Reviews

[Roy · Rating 2 out of 5]

A limited collection of quotes taken from the original Meditations presented as the original on the left page and the author's modern interpretation on the right. Unfortunately I did not find the modern interpretations all that useful; most of the time they simply seemed to reiterate what had been said when the meaning was already fairly clear. This is partially my fault as I thought this was a full copy of the original Meditations by Marcus Aurelius rather than a smaller collection of interpreted quotes, but I do not feel like the interpretations often added much in the way of value or meaning to the original.