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[Candace Lain Faucher]

"Then one of the judges of the city stood forth and said, "Speak to us of
Crime and Punishment."

And he answered, saying:

"It is when your spirit goes wandering upon the wind, that you, alone and
unguarded, commit a wrong unto others and therefore unto yourself.

And for that wrong committed must you knock and wait while unheeded at the
gate of the blessed.

Oftentimes have I heard you speak of one who commits a wrong as though he
were not one of you, but a stranger unto you and an intruder upon your world.

But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the
highest which is in each one of you,

So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in
you also.

And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the
whole tree,

So the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all.

And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution
against the stumbling stone.

Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of
foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.

And this also, though the word lie heavy upon your hearts:

The murdered is not unaccountable for his own murder,

And the robbed is not blameless in being robbed.

The righteous is not innocent of the deeds of the wicked,

And the white-handed is not clean in the doings of the felon.

Yea, the guilty is oftentimes the victim of the injured,

And still more often the condemned is the burden bearer for the guiltless
and unblamed.

You cannot separate the just from the unjust and the good from the wicked;

For they stand together before the face of the sun even as the black
thread and the white are woven together.

And when the black threads break, the weaver shall look into the whole
cloth, and he shall examine the loom also."

--Kahlil Gibran

CLF

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"And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill
his cup from your little stream."

- Kahlil Gibran