Follow your destiny,
Water your plants,
Love your roses.
The rest is shadows
Of unknown trees.
Reality is always
More or less
Than what we want.
Only we are always
Equal to ourselves.
It’s good to live alone,
And noble and great
Always to live simply.
Leave pain on the altar
As an offering to the gods.
See life from a distance.
Never question it.
There’s nothing it can
Tell you. The answer
Lies beyond the Gods
But quietly imitate
Olympus in your heart.
The gods are gods
Because they don’t think
About what they are.
‘Ricardo Reis’ aka Fernando Pessoa 1/8/1916
It may be that simple. Forego the need to know more, to be better and thus come to true knowledge.
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