All names are washed away in the grandness of time. The sin is not to burn out but to waste your light in darkness alone. The virtue is in knowing personal cost of the clarity that your light grants to others.
SBA #237 Sins and Virtues
Submitted 3 weeks ago by agent_nycto@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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OnyxRex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
well, theoretically you could make an ever-lasting candle by supplying new oil at the same speed as it burns down
Quexotic@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
This cynicism is priceless and I want more of it.
Sibshops@feddit.cl 3 weeks ago
A too kind person toils away for another leaving onself unfulfilled toward ones own pursuits.
godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
What if one’s own pursuits is to lift others? To light the eay for others so that they do not make the same mistakes stumbling in the darkness. Would their pursuits not then be fulfilled?
fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
then get into union organizing
omghi@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Only if you’re unkind to yourself.
w3ird_sloth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m enjoying these. Keep it up.
agent_nycto@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thanks!