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The Power of the Dau
Everything is fundamentally in harmony with the Dau. It's like a situation in which we are all floating in a tremendous river and the river carries you along anyhow. Some of the people in the river are swimming against it but they are still being carried along. Others have learned that the art of it of the thing is to swim with it. And they are carried along too. But they know it you see. They know they are carriedalong whereas the people who are swimmingagainst it think they are going in the opposite direction. So that was a sort of discussion we were having this morning when I find invariably whenever I talk about these things Americans raise moral issues because we are a people incredibly
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