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And one of the elders of the city said, Speak to us of Good and Evil.
And he answered:
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You are good when you are one with yourself.
Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil.
For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house
And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous
isles yet sink not to the bottom.
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In your longing for your giant self lies your goodness: and that longing is in all of you.
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But in some of you that longing is a torrent rushing with might to the sea, carrying the secrets of the hillsides and the songs of the forest
And in others it is a flat stream that loses itself in angles and bends and lingers before it reaches the shore.
But let not him who longs much say to him who longs little,
"Wherefore are you slow and halting?"
For the truly good ask not the naked, "Where is your garment?"
nor the houseless, "What has befallen your house?"
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~ Kahlil Gibran
(excerpt from: On Good and Evil)
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