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There are a couple of sentences that consistently remind me what life is about. Unrelated events of the past couple of days have me thinking about them more than usual. First, I came across the card handed out at the most recent funeral I attended when I took the jacket I wore that day to the dry cleaner. The words were on this card. Second, the shuffle songs feature of my iPod jumped this morning to a friend’s choral group’s rendition of these words.

A few years ago, some fellow made a small fortune with a book that took approximately 200 pages to explain that the author learned everything important to know in Kindergarten.

Poor St. Francis almost certainly earned not a penny for these words, everything important to do in 42 words:

. . . [G]rant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; . . . .

Is there anything else — or a more elegant way to express it?