For That Which Is Without

We Suffer From The Evils Which We, By Our Own Free Will, Inflict On Ourselves And Ascribe Them To God, Who Is Far From Being Connected With Them!

One Should See The World, And See Himself As A Scale With An Equal Balance Of Good And Evil. When He Does One Good Deed The Scale Is Tipped To The Good - He And The World Is Saved. When He Does One Evil Deed The Scale Is Tipped To The Bad - He And The World Is Destroyed.

There Is No Difference Between The Pain Of Humans And The Pain Of Other Living Beings, Since The Love And Tenderness Of The Mother For The Young Are Not Produced By Reasoning, But By Feeling, And This Faculty Exists Not Only In Humans But In Most Living Beings.

Transient Bodies Are Only Subject To Destruction Through Their Substance And Not Through Their Form, Nor Can The Essence Of Their Form Be Destroyed; In This Respect They Are Permanent.

To The Totality Of Purposes Of The Perfect Law There Belong The Abandonment, Depreciation, And Restraint Of Desires In So Far As Possible.