Kinfonet Quote of the Day: The poison and corruption begin when you look to one person as your authority, your guide, your saviour.

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Commentaries On Living Series II | Chapter 45 'Help'

If someone has helped you and you make of him your authority, then are you not preventing all further help, not only from him, but from everything about you? Does not help lie about you everywhere? Why look in only one direction? And when you are so enclosed so bound, can any help reach you? But when you are open, there is unending help in all things, from the song of a bird to the call of a human being, from the blade of grass to the immensity of the heavens. The poison and corruption begin when you look to one person as your authority, your guide, your saviour.

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