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Hello and welcome back to practical stoicism. I am your host, Tanner Campbell, and in today's episode, we're going to be going over the third meditation of book two. But before we do, friendly reminder, as always, please consider supporting this podcast and getting rid of ads and helping me to continue the project and turn it into, you know,

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today's meditation, which is again the third from book two, which reads as follows.

All that is from the gods is full of providence. That which is from fortune is not separated from

nature or without an interweaving and involution with the things which are ordered by providence.

From thence all things flow, and there is besides necessity, and that which is for the advantage

of the whole universe, of which thou are a part. But that is good for every part of nature,

which the nature of the whole brings, and what serves to maintain this nature.

The universe is preserved, as by the changes of the elements, so by the changes of things

compounded of the elements. Let these principles be enough for thee, let them always be fixed

opinions, but cast away your thirst after books, that thou mayest not die murmuring,

but cheerfully, truly, and from thy heart thankful to the gods.

The Stoics were not atheists, but they were an odd form of non-athist in that they did not,

with the sole exception, I believe, of Epictetus, believe in a personal

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