Chapter 59: Chapter 57: The spreading of the good word

‘Those who can not swim should not stay near rivers.’

Isaiah teaches us a lesson on the hubris of the living condition. Self-control and true self-love are interwoven roots that hold a tree above themselves steady and strong. A person who claims to love themself, but who has no control over their own actions and emotional state, is simply playing a game of self-deceit.

Learning about your feelings and your pains to their deepest core and why you act on them in such self-destructive ways is the metaphorical act of swimming through life. Self-love is the river. It is dangerous to indulge in the latter, without understanding the former.

A river is deadly if you can not swim. Self-love is poison if you are intent on loving self-destructiveness.

Learn to swim.