1. life hits harder than you can
2. the point is not how hard you can hit back
3. but how much you can take and still go forward
All names of good and evil are merely parables: they do not define, they merely hint. A fool is he who wants knowledge of them!
Watch for every hour, my brothers, in which your spirit wants to speak in parables: there lies the origin of your virtue. There your body is elevated and resurrected; with its rapture it delights the spirit so that it turns creator and esteemer and lover and benefactor of all things.
When your heart flows broad and full like a river, a blessing and a danger to those living near: there is the origin of your virtue.
When you are above praise and blame, and your will wants to command all things, like a lover's will: there is the origin of your virtue.
When you despise the agreeable and the soft bed and cannot bed yourself far enough from the soft: there is the origin of your virtue.
When you will with a single will and you call this cessation of all need "necessity": there is the origin of your virtue.
Verily, a new good and evil is she. Verily, a new deep murmur and the voice of a new well!
Power is she, this new virtue; a dominant thought is she, and around her a wise soul: a golden sun, and around it a serpent of knowledge.
More zeal than necessary or appropriate.
Regarding friends: I was trying to keep 40 friends or less until now, which may have involved me de-friending you in the past for basically no reason. I've now decided to ignore this limit, so please accept my humble apology and re-friendship.
