This is Monica Perez, and we are here to continue our reading and discussion of Marcus

O'Rilius' Meditations.

So we are going to read book six.

The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant, and the reason that governs it has in

itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to anything,

nor is anything harmed by it.

But all things are made and perfected according to this reason.

Let it make no difference to you, whether you are cold or warm, if you are doing your duty,

and whether you are drowsy or satisfied with sleep, and whether ill-spoken of or

praise, and whether dying or doing something else. For it is one of the acts of life, this act by

which we die, it is sufficient then in this act also to do well what we have in hand.

Look within. Let neither the peculiar quality of anything nor its value escape you. All existing things soon change and they will either be reduced to

vapor if indeed all substance is one or they will be dispersed. The reason that governs knows what its own disposition is and what it does and on what material it works. Okay. So I asked them to not jackhammer for this hour, which is great. But Arturo continues to lick his pause

furiously, so I might have to tell him to stop every once in a while.

The reason that governs knows what its own disposition is and what it does and on what

material it works.

The best way of avenging yourself is not to become like the wrongdoer.

This is what's happening in this country right now.

Bosti outwarned against it.

Do not use revolution to switch places with your oppressors.

Don't, and that is exactly what Trump seems to represent, or at least people who like that

there's payback time.

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