Bokelskere.no

And what looks grand and remote
so long as our words are still reaching out
towards it from a long way off,
later, once it has entered
the sphere of our everyday activities,
becomes quite simple and loses all
its disturbing qualities

The sole purpose of all the cruel things that happen is to kill off miserable, outward-directed desires which, whether they be pride or hunger, joy or pity, only pull us away from the fire that each one of us has the potential to start within him.