After we are dead it matters not to the life
we have led in ourselves what people may say of us, but it matters
much to the life we lead in others and this should be our true life.
Karma
When I am inclined to complain about having worked so many years and
taken nothing but debt, though I feel the want of money so
continually (much more, doubtless, than I ought to feel it), let me
remember that I come in free, gratis, to the work of hundreds and
thousands of better men than myself who often were much worse paid
than I have been. If a man's true self is his karma--the life which
his work lives but which he knows very little about and by which he
takes nothing--let him remember at least that he can enjoy the karma
of others, and this about squares the account--or rather far more
than squares it. [1883.]
Birth and Death
i
They are functions one of the other and if you get rid of one you
must get rid of the other also. There is birth in death and death in
birth. We are always dying and being born again.
ii
Life is the gathering of waves to a head, at death they break into a
million fragments each one of which, however, is absorbed at once
into the sea of life and helps to form a later generation which comes
rolling on till it too breaks.
iii
What happens to you when you die? But what happens to you when you
are born? In the one case we are born and in the other we die, but
it is not possible to get much further.
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