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A Wheel in Society

From the Essay "Peace in the World" in A Sage’s Fruit, Essays by Baal HaSulam

Man was created
To lead a social life.
Each and every individual
Is like a wheel,
Joined with numerous others,
All placed on one machine.

A single wheel
Has no freedom of motion
In and of itself.
Rather,
It follows the motion
Of the rest of the wheels
In a certain direction,
For the machine
To do its task.

And if one of the wheels is broken,
It isn't evaluated or measured
In relation to itself,
But rather
In relation to its function and service
Of the entire machine.

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