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We should ask God

To help us toward manners. Inner gifts

Do not find their way

To creatures without just respect.

 

If a man or a woman flails about, he not only

Smashes his house,

He burns the world down.

 

Your depression is connected to your insolence

And your refusal to praise. If a man or a woman is

On the path, and refuses to praise - that man or woman

Steals from others every day - in fact is a shoplifter!

 

The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself.

Angels began shining when they achieved discipline.

The sun goes out whenever the cloud of non-praising comes

near.

The moment that foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the

door close.

 

 

*****

from "The Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy"

translated by Robert Bly

Ecco Press 1995

 

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