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.

So find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath in, let it out slowly, and off we go.

Tonight we're returning to a work that many of you have written to

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Now, let's get to the reading.

Tonight, we're reading the second half of a small but very influential volume of philosophy,

The Prophet by Khalil Gibran, first published in 1923 by Alfred A Knopf, New York.

Let's pick up where we left off in the midst of the Prophet's discussions with the people of Orphalaise.

And the priestess spoke again and said,

Speak to us of reason and passion.

And he answered, saying,

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield,

upon which your reason and your judgment, wage war against your passion and your appetite.

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