Meditations IV.40

Cease not to think of the Universe as one living Being,⁶⁵ possessed of a single Substance and a single Soul; and how all things trace back to its single sentience;⁶⁶ and how it does all things by a single impulse; and how all existing things are joint causes of all things that come into existence; and how intertwined in the fabric is the thread and how closely woven the web.⁶⁷

• 65.A Stoic doctrine, Diogenes Laertius, Life of Zeno 36.

  Diogenes Laertius, in his Life of Zeno, reports the Stoic doctrine that the universe is a living being, rational and endowed with soul.

• 66.For ἀναδίδοσθαι, compare v. 26.
• 67.See iii. 11.