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of meditations by Marcus Aurelius. So we normally do one book or chapter at a time. Today I have two.

Books 11 and 12. So I'm probably not going to indulge in too much chit-chat but I will indulge

in a lot of chit-chat same time same place next week when Daniel Natal is going to join us he actually

did an audio book of this meditations by marcus ourelius and he is so smart, interesting, and funny. So I think we're

going to get a lot out of that. And it'll be live so we can all join in the fun and pick his

brain. So we better finish the book today. Here we go. Book 11. These are the properties of the rational soul. It sees itself, analyzes itself,

makes itself such as it chooses, itself reaps its own fruits, whereas the fruits of the vegetable

kingdom and the corresponding produce of animals are

reaped by others, the soul obtains its own end, wherever the limit of life may be fixed.

Not as in a dance and in a play, and in such things, where the whole action is incomplete, if anything, cuts it short.

But in every part and wherever it may be stopped, it makes what has been set before it

full and complete, so that it can say, I have what is my own. And further, it traverses the whole

universe and the surrounding void and surveys its

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