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privately back. Today we are covering the 16th meditation of book two. It is the second to last

meditation of this book before I go on a mini 30-day vacation. I guess that's actually a pretty

good vacation if I didn't have a day job. And then I will be back with book three sometime, you know, towards the middle of summer. That meditation, meditation

16 reads as follows. The soul of a man does violence to itself, first of all, when it becomes an

obsess and, as it were, a tumor on the universe, so far as it can.

For to be vexed at anything which happens is a separation of ourselves from nature,

in some part of which the nature of all other things are contained.

In the next place, the soul does violence to itself when it turns away from any man,

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