Life is never just being. It is becoming a
relentless1, flowing on. Our parents live on through us,and we will live on through our children. The institutions we build endure, and we will endure through them. The beauty we fashion cannot be dimmed by death. Our flesh may perish, our hands will
wither2, but that which they creat in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come.
Don't spend and waste your lives accumulating objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. Pusue not so much the material as the ideal, for ideals alone invest life with meaning and are of enduring worth. Add love to a house and you have a home. Add righteousness to a city and you have a community. Add truth to a pile of red brick and you have a school. Add religion to the hublest of
edifices3 and you have a
sanctuary4. Add justice to the far-flung round of human endeavor and you have civilization. Put them all together,
exalt5 them above their present imperfections, add to them the vision of humankind
redeemed6, forever free of need and
strife7 and you have a future lighted with the radiant colors of hope.
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