The 'world' is the 'jail' of the 'believer' and 'paradise' of the 'disbeliever'.
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Take five quiet minutes for prayer, meditation or reflection.
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It is the highest service to submit the evil impulse to God through the power of love.
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.
Non-violence and kindness to living beings is kindness to oneself. For thereby one's own self is saved from various kinds of sins and resultant sufferings and is able to secure his own welfare.
