This passage is peaceful. Yet we cannot live up to it. We carry on making the same mistakes again and again. Until one day, when perhaps our consciousness goes into a next life and goes on repeating the same faults in an eternal cycle of pain.

We can only break this cycle with a rigid discipline – which seems possible to some, but not to me.

Amend your behaviour and your actions, and I will stay with you in this place.

(Jeremiah 7: 1-11)