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You observe the carven hand / With the index finger pointing heavenward.
That is the direction, no doubt.
But how shall one follow it?
It is well to abstain from murder and lust, / To forgive, do good to others, worship God / Without graven images.
But these are external means after all / By which you chiefly do good to yourself.
The inner kernel is freedom, / It is light, purity --
I can no more, / Find the goal or lose it, according to your vision.