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Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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Anand Thakur
The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Anand Thakur
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
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Explanation Myself Wind
To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.
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Anand Thakur
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
How many evils have flowed from religion.
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Evil Flow Religion
Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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Anand Thakur
Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e’en now, e’en now, we die.
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Anand Thakur
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.
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Anand Thakur
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
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Greatness Live Mindset Satisfaction Soul Wealth
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
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Anand Thakur
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
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Anand Thakur
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
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Body Decay Growth Mindset Notice

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

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