Being Vigilant

There is a difference between preventing yourself from falling and advancing more quickly. And both are absolutely necessary. He who is not vigilant is already dead. He has lost contact with the true purpose of existence and of life. So the hours, circumstances, life pass in vain, bringing nothing, and you awake from your somnolence in a hole from which it is very difficult to escape.

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