AFTER DOING MEDITATION , HOW YOU SEE - YOUR LIFE
THE EXACT ART OF LIFE
MEDITATION
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THAT INWARD MISTRESS PART OF MAN IF IT BE IN ITS OWN TRUE NATURAL TEMPER, IS TOWARDS ALL WORLDLY CHANCES AND EVENTS EVER SO DISPOSED AND AFFECTED, THAT IT WILL EASILY TURN AND APPLY ITSELF TO THAT WHICH MAY BE, AND IS WITHIN ITS OWN POWER TO COMPASS, WHEN THAT CANNOT BE WHICH AT FIRST IT INTENTED. FOR IT NEVER DOTH ABSOLUTELY ADDICT AND APPLY ITSELF TO ANY ONE OBJECT, BUT WHATSOEVER IT IS THAT IT DOTH NOW INTEND AND PROSECUTE, IT WITH EXCEPTION AND RESERVATION, SO THAT WHASOEVER IT IS THAT FALLS OUT CONTRARY TO ITS FIRST INTENTIONS, EVEN THAT AFTERWARDS IT MAKES ITS PROPER OBJECT. EVEN AS THE FIRE WHEN IT PREVAILS UPON THOSE THINGS THAT ARE IN HIS WAY. BUT A GREAT FIRE DOTH SOON TURN TO ITS OWN NATURE, AND SO CONSUME WHATSOEVER COMES IN HIS WAY, YEA BY THOSE VERY THINGS IT IS MADE GREATER AND GREATER.
* LET NOTHING BE DONE RASHLY, AND AT RANDOM, BUT ALL THINGS ACCORDING TO THE MOST EXACT AND PERFECT RULES OF ART.
* THEY SEEK FOR THEMSELVES PRIVATE RETIRING PLACES, AS COUNTRY VILLAGES, THE SEASHORE, MOUNTAINS, YEA THOU THYSELF ART WANT TO LONG MUCH AFTER SUCH PLACES. BUT ALL THIS THOU MUST KNOW PROCEEDS FROM SIMPLICITY IN THE HIGHEST DEGREE. AT WHATTIMESOEVER THOU WILT, IT IS IN THY POWER TO RETIRE INTO THYSELF, AND TO BE AT REST, AND FREE FROM ALL BUSINESSESS. A MAN CANNOT ANY WHITHER RETIRE BETTER THAN TO HIS OWN SOUL, HE ESPECIALLY WHO IS BEFOREHEAD PROVIDED OF SUCH THINGS WITHIN, WHICH WHENOEVER HE DOTH WITHDRAW HIMSELF TO LOOK IN, MAY PRESENTLY AFFORT UNTO HIM PERFECT EASE AND TRANQUILLITY. BY TRANQUILLITY I UNDERSTAND A DECENT ORDERLY DISPOSITION AND CARRIAGE, FREE FROM ALL CONFUSION AND TUMULTUOUSNESS. AFFORD THEN THYSELF. LET THESE PRECEPTS BE BRIEF AND FUNDAMENTAL, WHICH AS SOON AS THOU DOST CALL THEM TO MIND, MAY SUFFICE THEE TO PURGE THY SOUL THOROUGHLY, AND TO SEND THEE AWAY WELL PLEASED WITH THOSE THINGS WHATSOEVER THEY BE, WHICH NOW AGAIN AFTER THIS SHORT WITHDRAWING OF THY SOUL INTO HERSELF THOU DOST RETURN UNTO.
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* AS GENERATION IS, SO ALSO DEATH, A SECRET OF NATURE'S WISDOM, A MIXTURE OF ELEMENTS, RESOLVED INTO THE SAME ELEMENTS AGAIN, A THING SURELY WHICH NO MA OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF, IN A SERIES OF OTHER FATAL EVENTS AND CONSEQUENCES, WHICH A RATIONAL CREATURE IS SUBJECT UNTO, NOT IMPROPER OR INCONGRUOUS, NOR CONTRARY TO THE NATURAL AND PROPER CONSTITUTION OF MAN HIMSELF.
* SUCH AND SUCH THINGS, FROM SUCH AND SUCH CAUSES, MUST OF NECESSITY PROCEED. HE THAT WOULD NOT HAVE SUCH THINGS TO HAPPEN, IS AS HE THAT WOULD HAVE THE FIG-TREE GROW WITHOUT ANY SAP OR MOISTURE. IN SUM, REMEMBER THIS, THAT WITHIN A VERY LITTLE WHILE, BOTH THOU AND HE SHALL BOTH HE DEAD, AND AFTER A LITTLE WHILE MORE, NOT SO MUCH AS YOUR NAMES AND MEMORIES SHALL BE REMAINING.
* LET OPINION BE TAKEN AWAY, AND NO MAN WILL THINK HIMSELF WRONGED. IF NO MAN SHALL THINK HIMSELF WRONGED, THEN IS THERE NO MORE ANY SUCH THING AS WRONG. THAT WHICH MAKES NOT MAN HIMSELF THE WORSE, CANNOT MAKE HIS LIFE THE WORSE, NEITHER CAN IT HURT HIM EITHER INWARDLY. IT WAS EXPEDIENT IN NATURE THAT IT SHOULD BE SO, AND THEREFORE NECESSARY.
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* WHATSOEVER DOTH HAPPEN IN THE WORLD, DOTH HAPPEN JUSTLY, AND SO IF THOU DOST WELL TAKE HEED, THOU SHALT FIND IT. I SAY NOT ONLY IN RIGHT ORDER BY A SERIES OF INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCES, BUT ACCORDINGLY TO JUSTICE AND AS IT WERE BY WAY OF EQUAL DISTRIBUTION, ACCORDING TO THE TRUE WORTH OF EVERYTHING. CONTINUE THEN TO TAKE NOTICE OF IT, AS THOU HAS BEGUN, AND WHATSOVEVER THOU DOST, DO IT NOT WITHOUT THIS PROVISO, THAT IT BE A THIG OF THAT NATURE THAT A GOOD MAN (AS THE WORD GOOD IS PROPERLY TAKEN) MAY DO IT. THUS OBSERVE CAREFULLY IN EVERY ACTION.
* CONCEIT NO SUCH THINGS, AS HE THAT WRONGETH THEE CONCEIVETH, OR WOULD HAVE THEE TO CONCEIVE, BUT LOOK INTO THE MATTER ITSELF, AND SEE WHAT IT IS IN VERY TRUTH.
* THESE TWO RULES, THOU MUST HAVE ALWAYS IN A READINESS. FIRST, DO NOTHING AT ALL, BUT WHAT REASON PROCEEDING FROM THAT REGAL AND SUPREME PART, SHALL FOR THE GOOD AND BENEFIT OF MEN, SUGGEST UNTO THEE. AND SECONDLY, IF ANY MAN THAT IS PRESENT SHALL BE ABLE TO RECTIFY THEE OR TO TURN THEE FROM SOME ERRONEOUS PERSUASION, THAT THOU BE ALWAYS READY TO CHANGE THY MIND, AND THIS CHANGE TO PROCEED, NOT FROM ANY RESPECT OF ANY PLEASURE OR CREDIT THEREON DEPENDING, BUT ALWAYS FROM SOME PROBABLE APPARENT GROUND OF JUSTICE, OR OF SOME PUBLIC GOOD THEREBY TO BE FURTHERED, OR FROM SOME SUCH INDUCEMENT.
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