Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep.

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And just one more note, this episode marks our four-year anniversary. I honestly can't believe it's been that long, but I'd like to

thank you all for continuing to tune in year after year. The kind notes you've sent, the requests and suggestions you've made, and the

support you've given have really meant a lot, and I sincerely thank you. 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.

Tonight let's return to a classic of Stoic philosophy, with more from meditations written by the Roman

Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Let's pick up where we left off at the beginning of the fifth book.

Let's begin.

In the morning when thou findest thyself unwilling to rise, consider with thyself

presently it is to go about a man's work that I am stirred up.

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