#summonings

#stoic-burns

#ritual-poetry

#flatline-codex

#cosmic-humor

An inspired remix of Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2

A poetic invocation to summon detachment, gallows humor, and planetary-scale perspective.

Recite as needed during ego flares, meetings with imbeciles, or unexpected entanglements.

Original Aurelius:

“Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men… But I have seen the nature of the good, and it is beautiful, and of the bad, and it is base…”

Shangle:

“Most of the people you’ll meet are deeply wound in their own s--t. Fortunately or not, we’re all people, same brain, same being. So consider giving them a break, and change your own diaper.”


1. Bitter (for clarity in chaos)

Loud fools everywhere.

No one knows what they’re doing.

Control what you can.


2. Comic (for defusing absurdity)

Guy cuts you off? Great.