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Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.
Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
Our task must be to free ourselves By widening our circle of compassion To embrace all living creatures And the whole of nature and its beauty.
In a world where you can be anything Be kind.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Just as the subsistence of the laborers who built the Pyramids was drawn not from a previously boarded stock, but from the constantly recurring crops of the Nile Valley; just as a modern government when it undertakes a great work of years does not appropriate to it wealth already produced, but wealth yet to be produced, which is taken from producers in taxes as the work progresses; so it is that the subsistence of the laborers engaged in production which does not directly yield subsistence comes from the production of subsistence in which others are simultaneously engaged.
Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.
Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.
Our task must be to free ourselves By widening our circle of compassion To embrace all living creatures And the whole of nature and its beauty.
In a world where you can be anything Be kind.
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Just as the subsistence of the laborers who built the Pyramids was drawn not from a previously boarded stock, but from the constantly recurring crops of the Nile Valley; just as a modern government when it undertakes a great work of years does not appropriate to it wealth already produced, but wealth yet to be produced, which is taken from producers in taxes as the work progresses; so it is that the subsistence of the laborers engaged in production which does not directly yield subsistence comes from the production of subsistence in which others are simultaneously engaged.