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Idleness And Incapacity

Idleness feeds incapacity
To increase its incapacity-hunger.
Incapacity gladly surrenders
To the whims of idleness-prince.

Excerpt from ‘Transcendence-Perfection‘ by  Sri Chinmoy

Copyright © Sri Chinmoy 1975

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