Thou Mayest
You May
Out of knowledge comes choice
William Shakespeare: “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. ” “This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
excerpts taken from article by Dan Ornstein.
That [choice] makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he still has the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win.
Timshol: this one word is telling humanity that we can choose to fight through and win the battle against our worst impulses, our worst sadness, anger, hatred; we can choose to do better, behave better, act with more compassion and self-restraint.