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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=430825" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Crime and Punishment chapter XII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then one of the judges of the city stood forth and said, &quot;Speak to us of Crime and Punishment.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he answered saying: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is when your spirit goes wandering upon the wind, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That you, alone and unguarded, commit a wrong unto others and therefore unto yourself. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And for that wrong committed must you knock and wait a while unheeded at the gate of the blessed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like the ocean is your god-self; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It remains for ever undefiled. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And like the ether it lifts but the winged. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even like the sun is your god-self; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But your god-self does not dwell alone in your being. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And of the man in you would I now speak. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For it is he and not your god-self nor the pigmy in the mist, that knows crime and the punishment of crime. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">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. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like a procession you walk together towards your god-self. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are the way and the wayfarers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And this also, though the word lie heavy upon your hearts: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The murdered is not unaccountable for his own murder, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the robbed is not blameless in being robbed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The righteous is not innocent of the deeds of the wicked, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the white-handed is not clean in the doings of the felon. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea, the guilty is oftentimes the victim of the injured, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And still more often the condemned is the burden-bearer for the guiltless and unblamed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You cannot separate the just from the unjust and the good from the wicked; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For they stand together before the face of the sun even as the black thread and the white are woven together. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when the black thread breaks, the weaver shall look into the whole cloth, and he shall examine the loom also. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And let him who would lash the offender look unto the spirit of the offended. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if any of you would punish in the name of righteousness and lay the ax unto the evil tree, let him see to its roots; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And verily he will find the roots of the good and the bad, the fruitful and the fruitless, all entwined together in the silent heart of the earth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And you judges who would be just, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What judgment pronounce you upon him who though honest in the flesh yet is a thief in spirit? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What penalty lay you upon him who slays in the flesh yet is himself slain in the spirit? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And how prosecute you him who in action is a deceiver and an oppressor, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet who also is aggrieved and outraged? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is not remorse the justice which is administered by that very law which you would fain serve? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet you cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And you who would understand justice, how shall you unless you look upon all deeds in the fullness of light? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only then shall you know that the erect and the fallen are but one man standing in twilight between the night of his pigmy-self and the day of his god-self, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And that the corner-stone of the temple is not higher than the lowest stone in its foundation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Khalil+Gibran">Khalil Gibran</a><div class=q>
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It is when your spirit goes wandering upon the wind, 

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