The ONE Book You Should Read At Least Once In Your Life

A timeless book that teaches the most important life lessons

Thomas Oppong
4 min readAug 9, 2021

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What is the best life-changing book you’ve read recently? What is the one book you keep reading over and over again?

Some books are meant to be devoured or digested slowly.

There are not many books that require total immersion. So when I come across a timeless and valuable book that has changed many lives over the years, I take the words of the author or writer seriously.

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is one of the greatest and original books ever written. It’s a life compass.

You don’t just read it once and put it on the shelf. You keep it close for easy access. You read and ponder. It’s full of practical wisdom for life.

Marcus Aurelius was a Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a famous Stoic philosopher. He wrote Meditations during his reign as a source of psychological advice for himself.

He originally called all the 12 books in the book “Writings To Myself.” He wrote it during a pandemic (Antonine Plague, named after him), which killed about 5 million people.

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Thomas Oppong

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