Welcome back to another episode of practical stoicism. We're going to be exploring meditation 13 from book two of meditations by marcus aurelius. Nothing is more pathetic than people who run around in circles, delving into the things that lie beneath and conducting investigations into the souls of the people around them. Never realize that all you have to do is be attentive to the power inside you and worship it. What is divine deserves our respect because it is good. What is human deserves our affection because it is like us. And our pity too, sometimes for its inability to tell good from bad,. As terrible a blindness as the kind that can't tell white from black.