# If you could only carry one sentence from this passage into the rest of your life, which would it be, and what would you have to give up to live by it?

_Theme: **core_values** - card 3/4 - 2026-05-14_

> On being asked why he permitted the animal thus to dirty his clothes, Towianski replied: ‘This dog, whom I am now meeting for the first time, has shown a great fellow‐ feeling for me, and a great joy in my recognition and acceptance of his greetings. Were I to drive him off, I should wound his feelings and do him a moral injury.

-- William James, _The Varieties of Religious Experience_

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