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"We come into Life, we enter Death. Three out of ten men follow the way of Life. Three out of ten men follow the way of Death Also there are three out of ten who live as men and yet they move on to the place of Death. What a Master is he, therefore, who takes hold of life, of real Life! He lives, his ears open to goodness, listening to hidden things. In travelling, he fears not the rhinoceros nor tiger. In entering the war-chariot, he dreads not the weapons of the soldier. Can a rhinoceros with his horn strike the Inner Life? Can a tiger with his claw tear the Inner Life? Can a soldier with his weapon pierce the valley of Inner Life? What a Master is he, therefore, who into the place of Death can bring his Inner Life!"