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gain from work; but why do I work? Because I love the world.” God is unattached because He loves ; that kind of real love makes us unattached. Wherever there is mere worldly attachment, the tremendous clinging to the things of the world, you must know that it is all physical, a sort of physical attraction between sets of particles of matter, something that attracts two bodies nearer and nearer all the time, and if they cannot get near enough produces pain; but where there is real love it does not rest on physical attachment at all. Loving persons may be a thousand miles away from one another, true love will be all the same; it does not die; and there will never be from it any painful reaction.
· To attain this unattachment is almost a life. work, but as soon as we get to this point we attain the goal of love and become free; the bondage of nature falls from us, and we see nature as it is; nature forges no more chains for us; we stand entirely free and take not the results of work into .consideration ; who then cares for what the results
