Antithetical Qualities
the uprooting of love of money, the rooting of freedom from love of money, the fruit of love, the cross of life, a painless life, an unenvied treasure, a carefree heaven, an undistracted sun, immeasurable matter, incomprehensible wealth, the sickle of anxiety, the practice of the Gospels, an unbound world, a swift-running combatant.
Sorrow is the inmate of loss, the companion of failure, the forerunner of exile, the memory of kinship, the attendant of distress, the schoolmate of listlessness, the accusation of provocation, the reminder of insolence, the darkening of the soul, the dejection of character, the drunkenness of prudence, a sleep-inducing antidote, the cloud of the form, the worm of the flesh, the sorrow of thoughts, the crowd of captivity.
Joy is the destruction of sorrow, the thanksgiving for misfortunes, the vision of prayers, the gladness of labors, the cheerfulness of well-doing, the inlay of renunciation, the vessel of hospitality, the refuge of hopes, the food of ascetics, the exhortation of mourners, the consolation of tears, the support of affliction, the vote for love, the fellow-vote for long-suffering.
Anger is the plundering of prudence, the dismantling of the good condition, the confusion of nature, a savage form, the furnace of the heart, a belching flame, the law of anger, the wrath of insults, the mother of beasts, a silent battle, the stumbling-block of prayer.
Long-suffering is the weapon of prudence, the court of anger for the heart, the infirmary of the heart, the admonition of the rash, the calm of the troubled, a harbor without winter, well-doing to those who grieve, gentleness toward all; being blasphemed, it blesses; being insulted, it rejoices; the consolation of the distressed, the mirror of those who hope, the prize of those who are ill-treated.
Chapter 4. Listlessness is an airy friendship, the leader-around of steps, the hatred of industry, the battle of stillness, the dizziness of psalmody, the shrinking from prayer, the inflation of asceticism, untimely
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