An Ordinary Bit Of The Universal Life. Poem by Dr. Antony Theodore

The virtues have a common character.
They tend to make the subject
regard itself, not as an isolated
and interesting individual,
possessing desires and rights,
but as a scrap of the cosmos,
an ordinary bit of the Universal Life.

The subject is only important
as a part of the All,
an expression
of the Will Divine.

Purity is but detachment
of the heart and so detachment
and purity go hand in hand.

The detachment of the heart
brings with it the humble spirit of obedience which expresses
detachment of will.

They are the manifestations
of Inward Poverty.