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Chapter 44 Summary

Get out the microscope, because we’re going through this poem line-by-line.

  • Time for more deep questions.
  • Which is more important, being rich and famous or truly knowing yourself?
  • Which is more painful, gaining things or losing them?
  • When we base our lives on making money to buy stuff, all we ever want to do is buy more stuff.
  • And when all we are is the things we have, then we've lost something that's pretty darn important: our true selves.
  • It's only when we live simply that we can truly be satisfied.