Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Book Five (Voice Only)
Send Me To Sleep
Send Me To Sleep
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🗓️ 8 September 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 1:16.0 | Welcome to Send Me To Sleep, the world's sleepiest podcast. |
| 1:23.0 | I'm your host, Andrew. I'm here to help calm your mind and send you into a peaceful night's sleep. |
| 1:35.0 | Tonight, I'll be reading the fifth book from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. |
| 1:45.0 | I hope these stoic wisdoms guide and relax you as much as they have me. |
| 1:53.0 | So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften as we settle in for a peaceful night's sleep. |
| 2:10.0 | The fifth book. |
| 2:14.0 | One. |
| 2:16.0 | In the morning, when thou findest thyself unwilling to rise, consider with thyself presently, it is to go about to man's work that I am stirred up. |
| 2:32.0 | Am I then yet unwilling to go about that for which I myself was born and brought forth into the world? |
| 2:42.0 | Or was I made for this to lay me down and make much of myself in a warm bed? |
| 2:53.0 | Oh, but this is pleasing. |
| 2:56.0 | And was it then for this that thou were born, that thou mightest enjoy pleasure? |
| 3:04.0 | Was it not in very truth for this, that thou mightest always be busy and in action? |
| 3:14.0 | Seest thou not how all things in the world besides, how every tree might plant, how sparrows and ants, spiders and bees? |
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