WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT YOURSELF

there's only one pattern worse than reading for yourself ... that's reading in neglect of yourself ... the first just means you're selfish ... the second means you're a danger to yourself ... reading all this volatile stuff and so much of it contrary to the good of your nature how do you think it's going to affect you ... at least precede each act of rebellion with a tract of moderation ... each call to alarm give a succeeding prayer of wonder ... and consider for every death there's more than enough birth ... and for every sorrow there's ultimately more joy eternally so ... consider too the nature of this progress from the least religion to the most ... sex science and charity ... each with a grotto of its own but only one of them wider than the universe ... only one of them the path to god truly ... the other two being adjuncts on the faculty ... the least and the less religions trail behind the most ... even as consent and agreement follow in the service of helping your neighbor ... the most is after all the best because it gathers up the most it can get from here to eternity