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“I was not worried about a betrayal or a slip of the tongue. Peace was settling down on me, like pollen, like summer dew, because of those two men. They were two shady trees, two clear springs. Maybe it is a deception, or my memories are turning into odors, but it seems that I really did smell a freshness and a faint scent wafting from them. I do not know which, of pines, of woodland grasses, of a spring breeze, of a Bairam morning, of something dear and pure.�
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When is obedience a moral stance, when a secret pride, and when a cowardly way to avoid responsibility? Is the longing for peace a willful blindness to truth and renunciation of reality? When are rebellion and assertion of the self justified, and what is the result of defying social expectations? Is conformity a veiled form of fear? How is the refusal to act equal to action?
Must the senses be annihilated to escape sin? And what then is sin? Can life exist within the confines of m ...more
When is obedience a moral stance, when a secret pride, and when a cowardly way to avoid responsibility? Is the longing for peace a willful blindness to truth and renunciation of reality? When are rebellion and assertion of the self justified, and what is the result of defying social expectations? Is conformity a veiled form of fear? How is the refusal to act equal to action?
Must the senses be annihilated to escape sin? And what then is sin? Can life exist within the confines of m ...more
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