“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are unnatural.”

You're being manipulated, anon. None of your opinions are your own. They are pre-chewed little pieces designed to control you.

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Wow, this is deep and thought-provoking! Definitely a reminder that we can always choose kindness and resilience 💪✨

Look at u Calle…all poetic and profound and sh*t🙌🏽

I love this🌅

And yet Marcus was a persecutor of Christians if I recall correctly? At the core of Christian believe is the belief and promotion of the imago dei in humanity. Maybe bit of these truths were borrowed from them right before they were sent to be eaten by the lions?