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Kinship with God!

 Kinship with God!

Six Pack Stoic

Epictetus

Pg.77



If Caesar were to adopt you

Your haughty looks will be intolerable! 


Will you not be elated at

Knowing that you are son of a God?


Now , its not so with us

In our birth, we are comingled with two things

Body, we share with the Animals

Reason and Thought, which we share with Gods!


Many move towards this unhappy kinship with beast!

Few rise to the blessed kinship with Divine!


Those few , are born for, Fidelity, Modesty and unerring sureness

In dealing with things of sense


But the multitude many, act the contrary

Clinging to the Body

Neglecting reasoning and thought! 


My Note:

We are part animal and part Godly!

Born with Animal instinct and God Instinct!

Which instinct am I reaching out to determines my Fate!

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