- Evil: the same old thing.
No matter what happens, keep this in mind: It’s the same
old thing, from one end of the world to the other. It fills the
history books, ancient and modern, and the cities, and the
houses too. Nothing new at all.
Familiar, transient.- You cannot quench understanding unless you put out the
insights that compose it. But you can rekindle those at will,
like glowing coals. I can control my thoughts as necessary;
then how can I be troubled? What is outside my mind means
nothing to it. Absorb that lesson and your feet stand firm.
You can return to life. Look at things as you did before.
And life returns.
- Pointless bustling of processions, opera arias, herds of
sheep and cattle, military exercises. A bone flung to pet
poodles, a little food in the fish tank. The miserable