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O hearless cheat! Don't spread out becoming a thorn on the path of unattached, harmless, innocent and honest wayfarers!
Leave obstinacy, withdraw now, go somewhere...far away from the path; otherwise, don't you know that the thorn is taken out by the thorn? Beware, you will be nowhere in a moment."
In the meantime, a flower hanging from a branch becomes particularly active in this connection. He neither cancels the talk of the thorn nor rebukes him, but, . speaks befittingly for subsiding the excitement, the heat in the thorn:
'When a needle can work why to strike with a sword ? When a flower can work why to use a thorn? When the fruit is at hand standing on the ground,
Silent Soil :: 257
