/lit/ - Literature

Meditations is too personal of a book to be a proper philosophical text. Those passages meant a lot to the author, but they may come off as platitudes or just gibberish to you.

A better Stoic beginner text would be Epictetus' Enchiridion (or the Handbook) - the guy quite obviously influenced Marcus' actions and writings. Another good source would be the writings of Seneca, mainly his essays (for example, On Tranquility of Mind) and letters (there is a lot of them and they mostly concertn events and conversations current to Seneca and his pen pal, the governor of modern Syria, if I remember correctly).

If you need any help with Meditations, consider pairing it with a secondary source - a good one would be Pierre Hadot's Inner Citadel.