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process, the secret and the method of doing so to the best advantage of all concerned.
What does it say? ・ "Work incessantly, but give up all attachment to work." Do not identify yourself with anything. Hold your mind free. All this that you see, the pains and the miseries, are but the necessary conditions of this world; poverty and wealth and happiness are but momentary; they do not belong to our real nature at all. Our nature is far beyond misery or happiness, beyond every object of the senses, beyond the imagination; and yet we must go on working all the time. "Misery comes through attachment; not through work." As soon as we identify our selves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it we do not feel that misery. If a beautiful picture belonging to another is burnt, a man does not generally become very miserable; but when his own picture iş burnt, how miserable he feels! Why? Both were beautiful pictures, perhaps copies of the same original; but in one case very much more misery
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