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Good evening. Welcome to send me to sleep, the world's sleepiest podcast. I'm your host,

Andrew. I'm here to help calm your mind and send you into a peaceful night's sleep.

Tonight I'll be reading Book Four of Meditations by Marcus Ceruleus. So let your eyes

fall heavy and your breath soften as we settle in for a peaceful night's sleep.

Book Four number one. 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 that it

will easily turn and apply itself to that which may be and is within its own power to

compass when that cannot be which at first it intended. For it never doth absolutely

a dip and apply itself to any one object. But whatsoever it is that it doth now intend

to prosecute it doth prosecute it with exception and reservation so that whatsoever it is

that falls out contrary to its first intentions even that afterwards it makes its proper object.

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