Work and Its Secret

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Work and Its Secret

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"If we examine our own lives, we find that the

greatest cause of sorrow is this; we take up something

put our whole energy to it and find, perhaps, that we

we have failed. We know that our continuing to cling

to it can only bring us misery; still we cannot tear

ourselves away from it. We find ourselves in the

position of the bee which came to suck honey and got

its feet stuck and could not extricate itself. This is

the fact of existence. We came here to suck honey, and

we find our hands and feet caught. We came to catch

and we are ourselves caught. We came to enjoy; we are

being enjoyed. We came to work; we are being worked.

This goes on all the time. We are being worked upon by

other minds while we struggle to work on our minds. We

want to get everything from nature, but we find in the

long run taht nature takes away everything from us,

depletes us, and casts us aside.

 

Therefore, says the Gita: Work constantly; work, but

be not attached; be not caught. Reserve unto yourself

the power of detaching yourself from everything,

however beloved, however much coveted, however great

the pangs of misery - reserve the power to leave it

whenever you want."

 

-- Swami Vivekananda

 

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"It is not you who shape God; it is God who shapes you.

If then you are the work of God, await the hand of the artist who

does all things in due season.

Offer the potter your soft tractable heart and

keep the form in which the artist has fashioned you.

 

Let your clay be moist lest you grow hard and lose the imprint

of the potter's fingers."

 

-St.Irenaeus