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Now, let's read and relax.

Find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume.

Take a nice deep breath in.

Let it out slowly.

And off we go.

This week I thought we'd return to a work we haven't read from in some time.

The Classic of Stoic Philosophy, Meditations, by Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.

Let's pick up where we left off, the beginning of Book 4.

That inward mistress part of man, if it be in its own true natural temper,

is towards all worldly chances and events ever so disposed and affected

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