Liam Milburn Texts

A handful of readers have asked about a better way to access the reflections. The blog format doesn't always make it easy to find a specific passage. 

The original intent was to collect the reflections and publish them as e-books, or perhaps even in printed form, but that may well be too ambitious a goal. The editing and formatting work requires far greater effort than people might realize. Many of these scribblings had to be transcribed from old hand-written notes. 

Honestly, there is also very little demand for amateur writing like this. When in doubt, best to keep it simple and humble. 

It would be wonderful if these texts could look more professional, but the blog has never been about appearing fancy or making money. It is supposed to be a bit gritty, without an ad banner in sight, and with no pressure to buy anything at all.

Many Stoic sites are trying to sell you something, which can all too easily contradict the very principles of Stoicism.

One fine day, there might be a series of books that comes out of all this, but in the meantime, you can find links to the rough versions of these texts over on the left sidebar at https://stoicbreviary.blogspot.com/, just below the "About Me" tab.

They won't look pretty, and you will see many terrible goofs and typos. Please mercifully look the other way when you come across them. 

For starters, you will find reflections on the Handbook by Epictetus, On the Happy Life by Seneca, and the most extensive one, a full set of reflections on the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

There are also two short compilations, Stoic Reflections on Hardship and Stoic Reflections on Friendship. They were next in line to go to Kindle, but they will be probably be far happier living right here for the moment.

Quick links:

Stoic Reflections on Friendship: https://stoicbreviary.blogspot.com/p/liam-milburn.html

Stoic Reflections on Hardship: https://stoicbreviary.blogspot.com/p/stoic-reflectopns-of-friendship.html

Reflections on the Handbook of Epictetus: https://stoicbreviary.blogspot.com/p/liam-milburn_17.html

Reflection on Seneca, On the Happy Life: https://stoicbreviary.blogspot.com/p/liam-milburn-reflections-on-seneca.html

Reflections on the Meditations 1-4: https://stoicbreviary.blogspot.com/p/liam-milburn-living-with-nature.html

Reflections on the Meditations 5-6: https://stoicbreviary.blogspot.com/p/liam-milburn-living-with-nature_17.html

Reflections on the Meditations 7: https://stoicbreviary.blogspot.com/p/liam-milburn-living-with-nature_80.html

Reflections on the Meditations 8: https://stoicbreviary.blogspot.com/p/liam-milburn-living-with-nature_29.html

Reflections on the Meditations 9: https://stoicbreviary.blogspot.com/p/liam-milburn-living-with-nature_68.html

Reflections on the Meditations 10: https://stoicbreviary.blogspot.com/p/liam-milburn-living-with-nature_84.html

Reflections on the Meditations 11-12: https://stoicbreviary.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_17.html 

If the stars are aligned, there may be more added, but we leave that to Fortune and the will of the gods.

They might not be any more easily searchable, but at least the texts will all be in one place, and not in that annoying scattered and reverse order that comes with the format of a blog. 

Thank you for reading along!