| | To be a upright lenient being is to be enduring a make of openness to the far-out, an cleverness to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very outermost circumstances on which you were not to blame. That says something remarkably important thither the fettle of the righteous life: that it is based on a trustworthiness in the unpredictable and on a willingness to be exposed; it's based on being more like a plant than like a sparkler, something somewhat dainty, but whose mere particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.
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