Sublime

In nature everything is obedience, unconditional obedience.

you might truthfully be able to say of yourself : “I cannot do anything else, I cannot do otherwise.”

For there is one thing that the lily and bird unconditionally do not understand, that, alas, most people understand best: half-measures.

So learn, then, from the lily and the bird, learn this, the dexterity of the unconditioned.

As noted, the certainty of downfall would disturb a human being, so that although only the briefest of existences had been allotted him, he did not fulfill the possibility he had in fact been granted. “To what purpose?” he would say, or “Why?” he would say, or “What good will it do?” he would say: and then he would not develop the whole of his pote