The Last Thought

This is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and the smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses to the hope of another night. Push our brave heart to the promise of a new day. With love: the passionate search for the truth other than our own. With longing: the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on. God help us. God forgive us. We live on...

Shantaram

Have been reading most of my free time these days. I particularly felt that this thought is very true, and kind of touched my heart.

Wherever you go in the world, in any society, it is always the same when it comes to questions of justice. We concentrate our laws, investigations, prosecutions and punishments on how much crime is in the sin, rather than how much sin is in the crime.

Ideally, the most important thing should be the amount of sin that is in the crime. Why don't we make money from prostitution and drugs. Because of the sin that is in those crimes. It is for this reason I will not sell children or women or drugs. In all these things, the sin in the crime is so great that a man must give up his soul for the profit he makes. And if a man gives his soul, if he becomes a soul-less man, it takes nothing less than a miracle for him to regain it.