Like a River and not a Swamp

To use our strength and possibilities, our opportunity and energy, our abilities and talents for satisfying our personal and selfish desires and needs is to waste them all.  On the other hand, this [self-centered effort] would spoil and corrupt us from within and without.  Spiritually speaking, abilities and faculties we enjoy have a negative direction; and for this very reason, the more we spend negative energy [for our own purposes] the more negative and destructive energy we shall receive from existence.  Since our released energy and faculty return to ourselves - [if spent for selfish ends] - they are going to leave destructive and corrupt consequences.  This resembles a swamp which water - even if flows - goes back to it.

When we serve our own desires, our life becomes like a swamp - lifeless, still, dark, deadly and empty of joy and freshness.  However, when we serve the Lord, we become like a river; we flow and run towards the sea and shall finally become one with it.  Although the river is flowing and sends its water towards the sea, yet it is continuously replenished by its source and fed by bordering currents and receives fresh, living and life-giving, and flowing water. 

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