Dhammapada

These aren't the most insightful passages from the Dhammapada, but I think they uncover and advise against an ill, or an attitude, pervasive in American spirituality today. I'll include them here, without commentary:

"(49) As the bee collects nectar and flies away without harming the flower, its color, or its scent, let a wise person go among the people and things of all this life.

(50) Let not a wise person note the perversities of others, nor what they have done or left undone.

(51) Like a beautiful flower without scent are the fair but fruitless words of the one who speaks of virtue but does not act accordingly."