Purity of Heart
Purity Of Heart Is To Will One Thing
Page 140 Chapter 9
The price of willing one thing:
The Exposure Of Evasion
CLEVERNESS IS INDEED a great power, yet it is treated by him as an insignificant servant, as a shrewd contemptible one. He hears the servant, to be sure, but in action he is not guided by him. He uses cleverness against himself as a spy and informer, which informs him instantly of each evasion, yes, even gives warning at any suspicion of an evasion. Now just as the thief knows the hidden way-and goes by it, so the authorities also know it and go by it in order to detect the thief, but the knowl- edge as knowledge is the same in both cases.
This is the way he makes use of cleverness. I do not know whether it is true that at each man's birth two angels are born, his good and his bad angel. But this I do believe (and I will gladly listen to any objection, although will not believe it) that at each man's birth there comes into being an eternal vocation for him, expressly for him.
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I recently read this paragraph aloud to a group of individuals.
Who all asked, please read this again!
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