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11/19/2003: "Burden"

Is it possible that one can be uplifted by the weights one carries? The burden is easy, and the yoke is light; but there is a burden and a yoke. It's all in the lifting, the meaning of the exercise, and the laying down. Every object seeks its own natural place; it is an easier task to help it find that place than to try to put it somewhere else.