260607 What I learned in my studies this morning 6

Today's Meditation(s):

Meditations, 11.7 (Hicks and Hicks)

What is Marcus going through that philosophy was so important to him just then?

Waterfield's note on this one takes it exactly the other way: things must be going great if Marcus is freely able to consider doing his philosophy.

I wonder why he (and presumably others) read it that way.