time of your life

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In the time of your life,

live - so in that good time there shall

be no ugliness or death for yourself or for

any life your life touches.

Seek goodness

everywhere, and when it is found, bring it

out of its hiding place and let it be free and

unashamed.

Place in matter and in flesh

the least of the values, for these are the

things that hold death and must pass away.

Discover in all things that which shines and

is beyond corruption.

Encourage virtue in

whatever heart it may have been driven into

secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror

of the world.

Ignore the obvious, for it is

unworthy of the clear eye and the kindly heart.

Be inferior of no man, nor of any man

be the superior.

Remember that every man

is a variation of yourself.

No man's guilt is

not yours, nor is any man's innocence a

thing apart.

Despise evil and ungodliness,

but not men of ungodliness or evil.

These,

understand.

Have no shame in being kindly

and gentle, but if the time comes in the the

time of your life to kill, kill and have no

regret.

In the time of your life, live - so

that in that wondrous time you shall not

add to the misery and sorrow of the world

but shall smile to infinite delight and mystery of it.

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- Willam Saroyan