1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,599 Speaker 1: Burden dropping. This to me is life. That if life 2 00:00:04,639 --> 00:00:07,360 be a burden, I will join to make it. But 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:12,039 the burden of a song bailey? Have you heard that 4 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:15,199 it was good to gain the day? I also say 5 00:00:15,279 --> 00:00:18,039 it is good to fall. Battles are lost in the 6 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:23,399 same spirit in which they are won, Walt Whitman. We 7 00:00:23,519 --> 00:00:26,719 hear and read much about burden bearing, but of the 8 00:00:26,719 --> 00:00:30,760 better way of burden dropping, very little is heard or known. 9 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:33,520 Yet why should you go about with an oppressive weight 10 00:00:33,679 --> 00:00:36,520 at your heart when you might relieve yourself of it 11 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:41,000 and move amongst your fellows heart free and cheerful. No 12 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:44,719 man carries a burden upon his back, except to necessarily 13 00:00:44,759 --> 00:00:48,079 transfer something from one place to another. He does not 14 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,759 saddle his shoulders with a perpetual burden and then regard 15 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:55,119 himself as a martyr for his pains. And why should 16 00:00:55,159 --> 00:00:58,799 you impose upon your mind a useless burden and then 17 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:01,920 add to its weight the miseries of self condolence and 18 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:06,400 self pity. Why not abandon both your load and your misery, 19 00:01:06,719 --> 00:01:09,480 and thus add to the gladness of the world by 20 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:13,879 first making yourself glad. No reason can justify and no 21 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:17,920 logic can support the ceaseless carrying of a grievous load. 22 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:22,319 As in things material, a load is only undertaken as 23 00:01:22,359 --> 00:01:25,920 a necessary means of transference, and is never a source 24 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:30,239 of sorrow. So in things spiritual, a burden should only 25 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:32,879 be taken up as a means towards some good and 26 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:37,519 necessary end, which, when attained, the burden is put aside. 27 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:40,840 And the carrying of such a burden, far from being 28 00:01:40,879 --> 00:01:44,120 a source of grief, would be a cause for rejoicing. 29 00:01:44,719 --> 00:01:49,400 We say that bodily mortifications which some religious ascetics inflict 30 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:54,000 upon themselves are unnecessary in vain, and are the mental 31 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:59,439 mortifications which so many people inflict upon themselves less unnecessary 32 00:01:59,519 --> 00:02:03,680 in vain. Where is the burden which should cause unhappiness 33 00:02:03,719 --> 00:02:07,359 and sorrow? It does not exist. If a thing is 34 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:09,919 to be done, let it be done cheerfully, and not 35 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,800 with the inward groanings and lamentations. It is of the 36 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:17,800 highest wisdom to embrace necessity as a friend and guide. 37 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,599 It is of the greatest folly to scalp upon necessity 38 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:25,080 as an enemy, and to wish or try to overcome 39 00:02:25,319 --> 00:02:28,520 or avoid her. We need our own at every turn, 40 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:32,479 and duties only become oppressive loads when we refuse to 41 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:37,000 recognize and embrace them. He who does any necessary thing 42 00:02:37,479 --> 00:02:41,120 in a niggardly and complaining spirit, hunting the while after 43 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:46,479 unnecessary pleasures, lashes himself with the scorpions of misery and disappointment, 44 00:02:47,039 --> 00:02:51,719 and imposes upon himself a doubly weighted burden of weariness 45 00:02:51,719 --> 00:02:56,439 and unrest, under which he incessantly groans. Wake thou, o 46 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:00,759 self to better things, to yonder heights, uplift thy wings, 47 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:04,639 take up the psalm of life anew, sing the good, 48 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,639 sing of the true, Sing a full victory over wrong. 49 00:03:09,319 --> 00:03:13,240 Make thou a richer, sweeter song. Out of thy doubting 50 00:03:13,319 --> 00:03:18,000 care and pain, weave thou a joyous glad refrain, out 51 00:03:18,039 --> 00:03:21,759 of thy thorns a crown. Weave thou of rare, rejoicing. 52 00:03:22,479 --> 00:03:27,159 Sing thou, Now, I will give my cheerful, unselfish and 53 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:31,319 undivided attention to the doing of all those things which 54 00:03:31,479 --> 00:03:35,080 enter into my compact with life. And though I walk 55 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:39,919 under colossal responsibilities, I shall be unconscious of any troublesome 56 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:43,599 weight or grievous burden. You may say a certain thing, 57 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,719 a duty, a companionship, or a social obligation troubles you 58 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:53,120 is burdensome, and you resign yourself to oppression with the 59 00:03:53,159 --> 00:03:56,919 thought I have entered into this and will go through it. 60 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:00,759 But it is heavy and grievous work. But is the 61 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:04,599 thing really burdensome? Or is it your selfishness that is 62 00:04:04,599 --> 00:04:07,960 oppressing you? I tell you that the very thing with 63 00:04:08,039 --> 00:04:11,199 which you regard as so imprisoning a restriction, is the 64 00:04:11,199 --> 00:04:15,159 first gateway to your emancipation. That work which you regard 65 00:04:15,199 --> 00:04:19,439 as a perpetual curse contains for you the actual blessedness 66 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:24,279 which you vainly persuade yourself lies in another, an unapproachable direction. 67 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,959 All things are mirrors in which you see yourself reflected, 68 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:32,319 And the gloom which you perceive in your work is 69 00:04:32,399 --> 00:04:35,040 but a reflection of that mental state which you bring 70 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:39,120 to it. Bring a right and unselfish state of heart 71 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,879 to the thing, and lo it is at once transformed 72 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:47,360 and becomes a means of strength and blessedness, reflecting back 73 00:04:47,439 --> 00:04:50,360 that which you have brought to it. If you bring 74 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,680 a scowling face to your looking glass, will you complain 75 00:04:53,759 --> 00:04:56,680 of the glass that it glowers upon you with a 76 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:00,560 deformed visage? Or will you put your face right and 77 00:05:00,639 --> 00:05:04,000 so get back from the reflector a more pleasing countenance. 78 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:07,319 It is right and necessary that a thing should be 79 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,160 done when the doing of it is good, and can 80 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:14,160 only become burdensome in wishing not to do it. The 81 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:18,439 selfish wish makes the thing appear evil. It is neither 82 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,800 right nor necessary that a thing should be done, then 83 00:05:22,079 --> 00:05:25,040 the doing of it in order to gain some coveted 84 00:05:25,079 --> 00:05:29,120 pleasure is folly, which can only lead to burdensome issues. 85 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:33,560 The duty which you shirk is your most reproving angel. 86 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,879 The pleasure which you race after is your most flattering enemy. 87 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:42,079 Foolish man, when will you turn around and be wise? 88 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:46,360 It is the beneficence of the universe that is everywhere 89 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:50,519 and at all times, urging its creatures to wisdom, as 90 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:55,439 it demands coherence of its atoms. The folly and selfishness entails. 91 00:05:55,480 --> 00:06:00,639 Suffering in ever increasing degrees of intensity is preservative and good, 92 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,120 for agony is the enemy of apathy. In the herald 93 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:10,120 of wisdom, what is painful, what is grievous? What is burdensome? 94 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:17,319 Passion is painful, Folly is grievous. Selfishness is burdensome. It 95 00:06:17,399 --> 00:06:21,079 is the dark idolatry of self, which, when our thoughts 96 00:06:21,079 --> 00:06:25,120 and actions once are done, demands that man should weep 97 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:30,519 and bleed and groan. Eliminate passion, folly, and selfishness from 98 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,759 your mind and conduct, and you will eliminate suffering from 99 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:39,040 your life. Burden dropping consists in abandoning the inward selfishness 100 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,839 and putting pure love in its place. Go to your 101 00:06:42,879 --> 00:06:45,279 task with love in your heart, and you will go 102 00:06:45,439 --> 00:06:49,839 to it light hearted and cheerful. The mind, through ignorance, 103 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:54,240 creates its own burdens and inflicts its own punishments. No 104 00:06:54,319 --> 00:06:57,439 one is doomed to carry any load. Sorrow is not 105 00:06:57,639 --> 00:07:02,680 arbitrarily imposed. These things are self made. Reason is the 106 00:07:02,759 --> 00:07:06,240 rightful monarch of the mind, and anarchy reigns in his 107 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:11,399 spiritual kingdom. When his throne is unsurped by passion. When 108 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:15,240 love of pleasure is the fore heaviness and anguish compose 109 00:07:15,319 --> 00:07:19,079 the rear, you are free to choose. Even if you 110 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,240 are bound by passion and feel helpless. You have bound 111 00:07:22,279 --> 00:07:26,040 yourself and are not helpless. Where you have bound, you 112 00:07:26,079 --> 00:07:30,040 can unbind. You have come to your present state by degrees, 113 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:34,839 and you can recover yourself by degrees, can reinstate reason 114 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:39,399 and dethrone passion. The time to avoid evil is before 115 00:07:39,439 --> 00:07:44,199 pleasure is embraced, but once embraced, its train of consequences 116 00:07:44,199 --> 00:07:48,040 should teach you wisdom. The time to decide is before 117 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:54,399 responsibilities are adopted, but once adopted, all selfish considerations, with 118 00:07:54,519 --> 00:07:59,439 their attendant grumblings, whinings, and complainings, should be religiously excluded 119 00:07:59,439 --> 00:08:04,160 from the heart. Responsibilities lose their weight when carried lovingly 120 00:08:04,319 --> 00:08:08,240 and wisely. What heavy burden is a man weighted with 121 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,240 which is not made heavier and more unendurable by weak 122 00:08:12,319 --> 00:08:17,279 thoughts of selfish desires. If your circumstances are trying, it 123 00:08:17,399 --> 00:08:20,160 is because you need them and can evolve the strength 124 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:22,920 to meet them. They are trying because there is some 125 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:26,000 weak spot within you, and they will continue to be 126 00:08:26,079 --> 00:08:29,879 trying until that spot is eradicated. Be glad that you 127 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:34,519 have the opportunity of becoming stronger and wiser. No circumstances 128 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:38,879 can be trying to wisdom. Nothing can weary love. Stop 129 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:43,000 rooting over your own trying circumstances, and contemplate the lives 130 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,360 of some of those about you. Here is a woman 131 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:49,639 with a large family who has to make ends meet 132 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:53,080 on a pound a week, She performs all her domestic 133 00:08:53,159 --> 00:08:57,000 duties down to the washing, finds time to attend on 134 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:00,639 sick neighbors, and manages to keep entirely out of the 135 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:06,080 two common quagmires, debt and despondency. She is cheerful from 136 00:09:06,159 --> 00:09:10,039 morning to night, and never complains of her trying circumstances. 137 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:14,840 She is perennially cheerful because she is unselfish. She is 138 00:09:14,919 --> 00:09:17,039 happy in the thought that she is the means of 139 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:21,120 happiness to others. Were she to brood upon the holidays, 140 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:25,320 the pretty bobbles, the lazy hours of which she is deprived, 141 00:09:25,879 --> 00:09:29,320 the plays she cannot see, the music she cannot hear, 142 00:09:29,919 --> 00:09:33,519 the books she cannot read, the parties she cannot attend, 143 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:37,519 the good she might do, the friendships she is debarred 144 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:41,480 from forming, of the many pleasures which might only be 145 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:46,679 hers if the circumstances were more favorable. If she brooded. Thus, 146 00:09:46,720 --> 00:09:50,840 what a miserable creature she would be, How unbearably laborious 147 00:09:50,879 --> 00:09:55,120 her work would become, How every little domestic duty would 148 00:09:55,159 --> 00:09:58,559 hang like a millstone about her neck, dragging her down 149 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,879 to the grave, which, unless she altered her state of mind, 150 00:10:02,279 --> 00:10:07,320 she would quickly reach. Killed by selfishness. But in not 151 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:11,039 living in the vain desires for herself, she is relieved 152 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:16,519 of all burdens and is happy. Cheerfulness and unselfishness are 153 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:21,879 sworn friends. Love knows no heavy toil. Here is another 154 00:10:21,919 --> 00:10:25,720 woman with a private income which is much more sufficient, 155 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:29,600 combined with leisure and luxury. Yet she has called upon 156 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:32,639 to forfeit a portion of her time, pleasure, and money 157 00:10:33,039 --> 00:10:36,679 to discharge some obligation which she wishes to be rid of, 158 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:39,919 and which should be to her work, a loving service, 159 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:44,879 or fostering in her heart some ungratified desire. She is 160 00:10:44,919 --> 00:10:51,480 perpetually discontented and unhappy, and complaints of trying circumstances. Discontent 161 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:56,840 and selfishness are inseparable companions. Self love knows no joyful 162 00:10:56,919 --> 00:11:01,960 labor of the two sets of circumstances above depicted, and 163 00:11:02,039 --> 00:11:06,240 life is crowded with such contrasted instances, which are the 164 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,879 trying conditions. Is it not true that neither of them 165 00:11:09,919 --> 00:11:13,559 are trying, and that both are blessed or unblest it 166 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:17,120 accordance with the measure of love or selfishness which is 167 00:11:17,159 --> 00:11:20,120 infused into them. Is it not the root of the 168 00:11:20,159 --> 00:11:23,039 whole matter in the mind of the individual and not 169 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:26,879 the circumstance. When a man who has recently taken up 170 00:11:26,879 --> 00:11:31,279 the study of some branch of theology, religion, or occultism says, 171 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:34,480 if I had not burdened myself with a wife and family, 172 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,440 I could have done a great work, And had I 173 00:11:37,519 --> 00:11:39,919 known years ago what I know now, I never would 174 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:43,759 have married. I know that that man has not yet 175 00:11:43,759 --> 00:11:47,440 found the commonest and broadest way of wisdom, for there 176 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:51,080 is no greater folly than regret, and he is incapable 177 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:54,799 of the great work which he is so ambitious to perform. 178 00:11:55,159 --> 00:11:57,120 If a man has such a deep love for his 179 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,799 fellow men that he is anxious to do a great 180 00:11:59,799 --> 00:12:04,039 work for humanity, he will manifest that surpassing love always, 181 00:12:04,639 --> 00:12:07,919 and in the place where he now is. His home 182 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:10,799 will be filled with it, and the beauty and sweetness 183 00:12:10,799 --> 00:12:14,159 and peace of his unselfish love will follow wherever he goes, 184 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:18,799 making happy those about him, and transmuting all things into good. 185 00:12:19,759 --> 00:12:22,799 The love that goes abroad to air itself and is 186 00:12:22,879 --> 00:12:27,840 undiscoverable at home is not love. It is vanity. Have 187 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:31,799 I not seen o pitiful sight, the cheerless home and 188 00:12:31,879 --> 00:12:37,240 neglected children of the misguided missioner and religionists. It is 189 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:40,639 on such self delusion as this, that self pity and 190 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:44,919 self martyrdom ever wait, and its self inflicted misery is 191 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,559 regarded by the deluded one as holy in religious burden 192 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:51,840 which he or she is called upon to bear. Only 193 00:12:51,879 --> 00:12:54,679 a great man can do great work, and he will 194 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:57,559 be great wherever he is, and will do his noble 195 00:12:57,639 --> 00:13:02,080 work under whatsoever circumstances he may find himself when he 196 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:06,080 has unfolded and revealed that work. Thou, who art so 197 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,799 anxious to work for humanity, to help thy fellow men, 198 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:15,360 begin that work at home, Help thyself, thy neighbor, thy wife, 199 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:19,639 thy child, Do not be deluded, and tell thou doest 200 00:13:20,159 --> 00:13:24,799 with utmost faithfulness, the nearer and the lesser, Thou canst 201 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:28,600 not do the farther and greater. If a man has 202 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:32,080 lived many years of his life in lust and selfish pleasure, 203 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:35,879 it is the order of things that his accumulated errors 204 00:13:35,879 --> 00:13:39,440 should weigh at last heavily upon him. As until they 205 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:42,960 are thus brought home to him, he will not abandon them, 206 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:45,960 he will not exert himself to find a better life. 207 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:50,639 But whilst he regards his self made self, impose burdens 208 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:54,759 as holy crosses imposed upon him by the Supreme, or 209 00:13:54,799 --> 00:13:59,840 as marks of spiritual virtue, or as loaths with fate circumstances, 210 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:04,600 or other people have heaped undeservedly and unjustly upon him. 211 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:08,240 He is but lengthening out his folly, increasing the weight 212 00:14:08,279 --> 00:14:13,120 of his burdens, and multiplying his pains and sorrows. Only 213 00:14:13,159 --> 00:14:15,759 when such a man wakes up to the truth that 214 00:14:15,879 --> 00:14:18,759 his burdens are of his own making, that they are 215 00:14:18,799 --> 00:14:22,559 the accumulated effects of his own acts, will he cease 216 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,919 from unmanly self pity and find the better way of 217 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:30,200 burden dropping. Only when he opens his eyes to see 218 00:14:30,279 --> 00:14:34,159 that every thought in act is another brick, another stone, 219 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:37,840 built into the temple of his life, will he develop 220 00:14:37,879 --> 00:14:41,200 the insight which will enable him to recognize his own 221 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:46,080 unstable handiwork, the unflinching manling as to acknowledge it, and 222 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:50,720 the courage to build more nobly and enduringly. Painful burdens 223 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:53,960 are necessary, but only so long as we lack love 224 00:14:54,039 --> 00:14:58,080 and wisdom. The temple of blessedness lies beyond the outer 225 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:01,840 courts of suffering and humiliat, and to reach it the 226 00:15:01,879 --> 00:15:05,559 pilgrim must pass through the outer courts. For a time, 227 00:15:05,639 --> 00:15:08,879 he will linger in the outer, but only so long as, 228 00:15:09,240 --> 00:15:13,279 through his own imperfect understanding he mistakes it for the inner. 229 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:18,320 While he pities himself and confound suffering with holiness, he 230 00:15:18,399 --> 00:15:22,200 will remain in suffering. But when casting off the last 231 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:26,000 unholy rag of self pity, he perceives that suffering is 232 00:15:26,039 --> 00:15:29,039 a means and not an end, that it is a state, 233 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:34,039 self originated and self propagated. Then converted and right minded, 234 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:37,559 he will rapidly pass through the outer courts and reach 235 00:15:37,639 --> 00:15:41,559 the inner abode of peace. Suffering does not originate in 236 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:45,200 the perfect, but in the imperfect. It does not mark 237 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:49,480 the complete, but the incomplete. It can therefore be transcended. 238 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:54,399 Its self born cause can be found, investigated, comprehended, and 239 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:58,759 forever removed. It is true, therefore, that we must pass 240 00:15:58,799 --> 00:16:03,000 through agony to rest, through loneliness to peace. But let 241 00:16:03,039 --> 00:16:06,720 the sufferer not forget it is a passing through, that 242 00:16:06,759 --> 00:16:10,840 the agony is a gateway and not a habitation, that 243 00:16:10,879 --> 00:16:15,159 the loneliness is a pathway and not a destination, And 244 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:17,759 that a little farther on he will come to the 245 00:16:17,799 --> 00:16:22,080 painless and blissful repose, little by little is a burden 246 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:28,799 accumulated imperceptibly, and by degrees is its weight increased. A 247 00:16:28,879 --> 00:16:33,840 thoughtless impulse, a gross self indulgence, a blind passion yielded 248 00:16:33,879 --> 00:16:37,960 to and gratified again and again, an impure thought fostered, 249 00:16:38,399 --> 00:16:42,399 a cruel word uttered, a foolish thing done time after time, 250 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:46,039 and at last the gathered weight of many follies becomes oppressive. 251 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,679 At first, and for a time the weight is not felt, 252 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:53,279 but it is being added to day after day. And 253 00:16:53,399 --> 00:16:56,399 the time comes when the accumulated burden is felt in 254 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:59,759 all its galling weight, when the bitter fruits of selfishness 255 00:16:59,799 --> 00:17:03,080 are gathered, and the heart is troubled with the weariness 256 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:07,559 of life. When this period arrives, let the sufferer look 257 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:10,720 to himself. Let him search for the blessed way of 258 00:17:10,759 --> 00:17:14,880 burden dropping, finding which he will find wisdom to live better, 259 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:20,119 purity to live, sweeter, love to live nobler will find 260 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:23,279 in the reversal of that conduct by which his burdens 261 00:17:23,279 --> 00:17:28,440 were accumulated. Light hearted nights and days, cheerful action, and 262 00:17:28,599 --> 00:17:33,319 unclouded joy come out of the world, come above it, 263 00:17:34,279 --> 00:17:38,079 up over its crosses and graves. Though the green earth 264 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:41,200 is fair, and I love it. We must love it 265 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:46,240 as masters, not slaves. Come up where the dust never rises, 266 00:17:46,839 --> 00:17:50,240 but only the perfume of flowers, and your life shall 267 00:17:50,279 --> 00:17:53,559 be glad with surprises of beautiful hours.