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A donkey turning a millstone is not trying to press oil from sesame seed.
He’s fleeing the blow just struck and hoping to avoid the next.
For the same reason, the ox takes a load of baggage wherever you want him to.
Shopkeepers work for themselves, not for the flow of communal exchange.
We all look to ease our pain, and this keeps civilization moving along.
God made fear the architect here.
Fear keeps us working near the ark.
There have been many soul-killing floods, many arks, and many Noahs.
Some human beings are safe havens.
Be companions with them.
Others may seem to be friends,
but they’re really consuming your essence like donkeys lapping sherbet.
Detach from them and feel flexibility return.
The inner moisture that lets you bend into a basket handle
is a quickening inside that no one is ever afraid of.
Sometimes, though,
it is fear that brings you to the presence.
