In
the time of your life, live-so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness
or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere,
and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and
unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are
the things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which
shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have
been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. Ignore
the obvious, for it is unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart. Be the
inferior of no man, nor of any man be the superior. Remember that every man is
a variation of yourself. NO man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence
a thing apart. Despise evil and ungodliness, but not men of ungodliness or evil.
These, understand. Have no shame in being kindly and gentle, but if the time comes
in the time of your life to kill, kill and have no regret. In the time of your
life, live-so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow
of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery
of it.