Bibliotherapy for Interpersonal frustration

Meditationsby Marcus Aurelius

Book 1•Anger

HIS FIRST BOOK

For: Interpersonal frustration and resentment

This chapter helps you neutralize bitterness and frustration toward difficult people by directing your attention toward gratitude and the virtues of mentors and companions. By recognizing that we are born to work together rather than clash in opposition, you can protect your inner peace and respond to daily offenses with equanimity.

“How can I either be hurt by any of those, since it is not in their power to make me incur anything that is truly reproachful? or angry, and ill affected towards him, who by nature is so near unto me? for we are all born to be fellow-workers, as the feet, the hands, and the eyelids”

Meditationsby Marcus Aurelius

Book 9•Anger

THE NINTH BOOK

For: Interpersonal frustration

This chapter helps you release resentment toward difficult people by recognizing that their flaws are inevitable parts of the world that cannot harm your inner character. By shifting your focus from external behavior to your own internal judgments, you can dissolve irritation and reclaim your peace of mind.

“This day I did come out of all my trouble. Nay I have cast out all my trouble; it should rather be for that which troubled thee, whatsoever it was, was not without anywhere that thou shouldest come out of it, but within in thine own opinions, from whence it must be cast out, before thou canst truly and constantly be at ease.”