08-23-2010, 12:00 AM
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"To die means to cancel all your holdings; to drop everything you have, everything you are."
"That's nothing new," I said. "I did that the moment I joined your world."
"Obviously you didn't. Otherwise you wouldn't be in such a mess. "If you had died the way sorcery demands, you would feel no anguish now."
"What would I feel, then?"
"Duty! Purpose!"
"My anguish has nothing to do with my sense of purpose," I shouted. "It's apart, independent. I am alive and feel sadness and love. How can I avoid that?"
Zuleica clarified, "You're not supposed to avoid it, but to overcome it.
"If warriors have nothing, they feel nothing."
"What kind of an empty world is that?" I asked defiantly.
"Empty is the world of indulging, because indulging cuts off everything else except indulging."
"To die means to cancel all your holdings; to drop everything you have, everything you are."
"That's nothing new," I said. "I did that the moment I joined your world."
"Obviously you didn't. Otherwise you wouldn't be in such a mess. "If you had died the way sorcery demands, you would feel no anguish now."
"What would I feel, then?"
"Duty! Purpose!"
"My anguish has nothing to do with my sense of purpose," I shouted. "It's apart, independent. I am alive and feel sadness and love. How can I avoid that?"
Zuleica clarified, "You're not supposed to avoid it, but to overcome it.
"If warriors have nothing, they feel nothing."
"What kind of an empty world is that?" I asked defiantly.
"Empty is the world of indulging, because indulging cuts off everything else except indulging."