unit.
This will be clearer to you if you remind yourself: I am a
single limb (melos) of a larger body—a rational one.
Or you could say “a part” (meros)—only a letter’s
difference. But then you’re not really embracing other
people. Helping them isn’t yet its own reward. You’re still
seeing it only as The Right Thing To Do. You don’t yet
realize who you’re really helping.
- Let it happen, if it wants, to whatever it can happen to.
And what’s affected can complain about it if it wants. It
doesn’t hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to
me. I can choose not to. - No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be
good. Like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, “No
matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald,
my color undiminished.” - The mind doesn’t get in its own way. It doesn’t frighten
itself into desires. If other things can scare or hurt it, let them;
it won’t go down that road on the basis of its own
perceptions.
Let the body avoid discomfort (if it can), and if it feels it,
say so. But the soul is what feels fear and pain, and what