Reflections from TS Eliot

“Let me disclose the gifts reserved for age….
the rending pain of re-enactment of all that you have done, and been;
the shame of motives late revealed,
the awareness of things ill done and done to others’ harm
which once you took for exercise of virtue…

There are three conditions which oft look alike
yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow:
Attachment to self and to things and to persons,
Detachment from self, from things and from persons; and growing between them Indifference which resembles the others as death resembles life,

Excerpts from Four Quartets: Little Gidding II -- TS Eliot