Awake Among the Sleepers
Even by the falling of water-drops a water-pot is filled. The fool becomes full of evil even if he gather it little by little. If a man does what is good slothfully, his mind delights in evil. There is no spot in the sky, the sea, or the mountains where a person is freed from an evil deed. Drift is how the pot fills: not with a festival of vice, but with neglect that never looks like a decision.
Key Insight
Small unwatched acts are still acts. The pot does not care that each drop seemed too slight to name.
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