172. Responsibility and opportunity

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When

Life is responsibility,

Death is opportunity.

When

Life is opportunity,

Death is futility.

When

We live in the physical,

We come to feel that life

Is man’s responsibility

And

God’s true opportunity.

But

When

We live in the soul,

We come to realise that life

Is God’s responsibility

And

Man’s constant opportunity.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,The Wings of Light, part 4, Aum Press, Puerto Rico, 1974
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