Transcending Thought
You will find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people.
Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others?...Half
the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you break bread with indifference, you bake bitter bread that feeds but half a man’s hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.
