The water wasn't the same down here. Water is what runs out of the kitchen taps or a playground drinking fountain. It fills bathubs and pools and yes, of course, the ocean- but at a certain depth, water becomes a barrier from all you remember, all you think you know.You're trapped within it, a plaything of it.Focus erodes. Your thoughts mutate. The pressure.The pressure.The soul can't cope with that. It shouldn't be expected to.Humans weren't built for this. There's a reason nothing lives down here.Or nothing should.
So I come back again to the condition that the Golden Rule, if one adopts it, is a difficult master to serve. The ship__ captain will not throw the compass overboard because the wind blows fair and the day is funny. For he knows, from the experiences of the ocean__ instability, that the danger days of storm are always __ust ahead._ So the compass must always be handy and obedience to it must always be loyal. And so with the Golden Rulle__he compass must be ever at hand through life__ journey. It will see us through trying times. And perhaps the most trying of all times comes when success is riding high and we may be tempted to __hrow the compass overboard._ It is then we must remember that all good days in human life come from the mastery of the days of trouble that are forever recurrent.
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So I come back again to the condition that the Golden Rule, if one adopts it, is a difficult master to serve. The ship__ captain will not throw the compass overboard because the wind blows fair and the day is funny. For he knows, from the experiences of the ocean__ instability, that the danger days of storm are always __ust ahead._ So the compass must always be handy and obedience to it must always be loyal. And so with the Golden Rulle__he compass must be ever at hand through life__ journey. It will see us through trying times. And perhaps the most trying of all times comes when success is riding high and we may be tempted to __hrow the compass overboard._ It is then we must remember that all good days in human life come from the mastery of the days of trouble that are forever recurrent.
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