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Today we'll be covering Meditation 521 from Marcus Aurelius and his famous meditations, which you're, of course,

familiar with at this point. That meditation reads as follows, reverence the sovereign power over

things in the universe. This is what uses all and marshals all. In like manner, too, reverence the sovereign power within yourself,

and this is of one kind with that, for in you also, this is what uses the rest, and your manner

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let's get into it to reiterate that meditation here it is the 21st from book five reverence the

sovereign power over things in the universe. This is what uses all

and marshals all. In like manner, too, reverence the sovereign power within yourself, and this is of

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