Rudyard Kipling, "If..." Resurrection!

May we all have a wonderful, inner, Light-filled Resurrection! Amidst all these new realities that we are living and that are about to come, let us choose to stay in the light! We send you infinite love and joy to each and every one of you individually and to all of you together! From all of us, the Pisces Swimming Team!
And a beautiful poem by Kipling, from us to you, to accompany us all, until we meet again!

If you can be calm when others are around,
They throw injustice at you in the daze,
if you can, when they have hesitations about you,
Have secret confidence in your own strength,
if you can be tireless when you expect something,
Don't answer others' deceit with lies,
If they hate you, don't hate even if you are hurt,
Don't be gullible or cunning,
if you can dream and define dreams,
to think without life in thought to give,
If you are generous, you can still open up.
the Triumph or the Destruction that you will one day mix,
If you tolerate the bad, listen to what they will do.
Your words are true and they mislead the foolish,
if you can see what you loved in ruins...
To start the work again with broken tools,
If you can accumulate all the riches you have gained
in a daring game, don't count them,
and when they are gone, may your life be sweet to you
without complaining
never for the lost,
If you have your heart as your slave, you can actually do it,
to find the courage that has long eluded you,
if in disaster you can have the same opinion,
with unwavering will to say: —"Still bear my heart!"—,
In the crowd, be pure without going too far,
to be with the crazy ones without your mind getting winded,
and if neither friend nor foe can water you with bitterness
and if you value each person only as much as they are worth
and if you can measure the fast time correctly
and within each moment, lock up the treasures...
Everything becomes yours then in this creation
and you are a worthy person and no one will surpass you.

Marinos Sigouros

[source: New Pioneers, vol. 5, issue 2 (February 1936) 62]