birth to.
—But if you’re inextricably linked to it through your sense
of individuality?
That’s not what we’re talking about here.- Epithets for yourself: Upright. Modest. Straightforward.
Sane. Cooperative. Disinterested.
Try not to exchange them for others.And if you should forfeit them, set about getting them back.Keep in mind that “sanity” means understanding things—
each individual thing—for what they are. And not losing the
thread.
And “cooperation” means accepting what nature assigns
you—accepting it willingly.
And “disinterest” means that the intelligence should rise
above the movements of the flesh—the rough and the smooth
alike. Should rise above fame, above death, and everything
like them.
If you maintain your claim to these epithets—without
caring if others apply them to you or not—you’ll become a
new person, living a new life. To keep on being the person