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There is One individual hidden
behind many individuals;
there is One person shining through all personalities.
Loveless is lifeless; loving is
living.
One breathes the air of Heaven,
another goes through the fire of Hell;
yet both walk on the same earth, both live under the same sun.
There are some who walk, some
who creep, some who run, and some who fly;
and yet all men are said to be alike.
It is unjust to be rich when
others are poor,
and it is fatal to be poor when others are rich.
Humility in love is the humility
of the master,
and humility in surrender is the humility of the slave.
A great person will stretch your
mind to the breadth of his own heart,
and a small person will narrow it to the size of his own outlook.
There is a right side to every
wrong,
and a wrong side to every right.
The mind is in its question and
it is itself the answer.
All the lack that we find in
life is the lack of will,
and all the blessing that comes to us, comes by the power of will.
The fearing well-doer is worse
than a fearless sinner.
If belief is a thing, faith is a
living being.
Thoughts have words,
feelings have voice,
words have forms,
voice has soul.
There are some - the closer
destiny brings together, the further are their hearts thrown apart;
and there are others - the further destiny throws apart,
the closer are their hearts brought together.
Sound is the life of life.
Time is the death of death.
The one who is lost on the path
of love is lost for ever;
the one who has won on the battlefield of love has won for all eternity.
There is no greater source of
pride than a clear conscience,
and there is no greater means of humiliation than a guilty conscience.
Sacrifice and renunciation are
two things;
sacrifice is made by love, renunciation is caused by indifference.
To live means to hope, and to
hope means to live.
It takes years to make an ideal,
and it takes but a moment to break it.
To love is one thing, and to own
is another thing.
The wealth seeker hath no regard
for father or brother;
the pleasure seeker considereth no honour nor respect;
the sorrowful hath no comfort nor sleep;
the hungry distinguisheth not between ripe and unripe.
Do I pass through life ? No, it
is life that passeth by me.
By loving one melts one's own
heart;
by possessing one loads the heart of another.
Possession is self-assertion,
loving is self-abnegation.
The possessor must lose sooner or later the one he possesses;
the lover gains in the end, if not the beloved, love itself.
The one who covers his grief
under a smile is sincere;
the one who covers his laughter under grief is a hypocrite.
Love that depends on being
answered by the beloved is lame; it does not stand on its own feet.
Love that tries to possess the beloved is without arms; it can never hold.
Love that does not regard the pleasure and displeasure of the beloved is blind.
Love that is exacting and self-assertive is dead.
The secret of woman's charm is
her modesty;
the mystery of man's power is his pride.
The lover is blind to the faults
of the one he loves,
and the hater is blind to the merits of the one he hates.
Wisdom existed before the wise;
life existed before the living;
love existed before the lover.
The desert can be changed into
fertile soil,
the land can be changed into the sea,
even Hell can be changed into Heaven,
but the mind that is once fixed cannot be changed.
Words are valuable, but silence
is precious.
That which fools can say rudely,
the clever cover under a veil,
and the wise say the same without saying it.
The day you feel you do not
know, you will begin to know.
What is once given is given;
what is once done is done;
what is once lost is lost; what is once won is won.
Nothing can bind one to another
except the thread of sympathy,
and nothing can separate one from another except the cutting of the thread.
As eagerly as man is inclined to
free himself from a situation,
so is he willingly inclined to fall into it.
Nothing is as old as the truth
and nothing is as new as the truth.
Make of them big things, if you
wish to do small things,
and make of them small things, if you wish to do big things.
We speak when we understand the
language of one another,
and we keep silence when our hearts speak.
Sound is the voice of life.
Time is the word of death.
There are many sins, small and
great, but to recognize sin is the greatest sin.
To step forward is going forward
in the path of friendship,
and to step backward is going backward.
He who retorts, pays the one who
insults him,
but he who takes silently, stands above every isult.
There are two different times in
life when the danger of falling awaits man:
the time of prosperity and the time of adversity.
All things become wrong when
they are not in their right time
or when they are not in their proper place.
In order to arrive at spiritual
attainment two gulfs must be crossed:
the sea of attachment and the ocean of detachment.
There is nothing more subtle or
simpler than truth.
Food is the nourishment of the
body,
thought is a refreshment to the mind,
love is the subsistence for the heart,
truth is the sustenance of the soul.
Man's ideal shows the height of
his heart,
man's understanding shows the depth of his heart,
man's perception shows the length of his heart,
man's sympathy shows the breadth of his heart.
But the fourth dimension of man's heart is seen by all that it contains within
itself.
Wisdom is different from
justice.
While justice is expressed in fairness, wisdom is shown by tact.
There are two sorts of persons
who show childlike simplicity in their lives:
the foolish one who shows childish traits, and the wise one who shows the
innocence of a child.
There are some who make the dead
alive,
and there are others who make the living dead.
Two persons are silent on the
question of religion: the most foolish and the most wise.
Above law is love, and above
love is the beloved.
The power of the word is indeed
great,
but the power of silence is greater still.
He who speaks much and says
little is foolish;
he who speaks little and says much is wise.
In the drop the sea is as small
as the drop;
in the sea a drop is as large as the sea.
If it is true, it is as true as
false;
if it is false, it is as false as true.
He stands above the situation
who controls it;
he falls beneath the situation who becomes involved in it.
One wo looks at life with horror
is in the underworld;
one who takes life seriously to heart is in the world;
the one who smiles at life with a happy smile is above the world.
It is the foolishly selfish who
is selfish;
the wisely selfish proves to be unselfish.
Before one becomes sharp and the
other blunt,
before one is hot and the other cold,
before one doubts and the other suspects,
before one gives up his confidence and the other his trust,
it is time that they left one another.
Before one closes his eyes and the other his ears,
before one turns his head and the other his back,
before one talks and the other disputes,
before one is in a wrath and the other in a rage,
it is time they left one another.
Friendship, relationship,
familiarity, intimacy, all have their limits.
If you pass the limit you certainly violate forbidden soil.
There are those who enjoy taking
and there are those who enjoy giving.
If you can say something without
saying, you had better not say;
if you can do something without doing, you had better not do.
Many live to die and many die to
live.
Even the faults of the
meritorious souls become merits,
and even the merits of the faulty one turn into faults.
There are two kinds of people:
those wo are blinded by faith and those who are blind to faith.
One cannot be real and live in
the world of falsehood,
and one cannotbe false and exist in the world of reality.
Love all, trust none,
forgive all, forget none,
respect all, worship none.
That is the manner of the wise.
The rose bringeth forth
fragrance, colour and beautiful structure.
So the soul, with its unfoldment, shows personality, atmosphere and refined
manner.
The sun, air, water, space and
fertile soil are necessary for the rose to bloom.
Intelligence, inspiration, love, a wide outlook and guidance are required for
the soul to unfold.
Art without beauty, poetry
without inspiration, music without feeling,
science without reason, philosophy without logic, religion without devotion,
mysticism without ecstasy - are like a lake without water.
A joke without wit, a speech
without meaning, tears without romance,
learning without wisdom, position without honour, a heart without love,
a head without thought - are like the space without the air.
A man without manly courage, a
woman without womanly grace,
a child without simplicity, an infant without an infant's innocence,
a lover without willing sacrifice, a worshipper without the ideal of God,
a giver without great modesty - are like a king without a kingdom.
Criticism, indifference,
pessimism are the three things which close the door of the heart.
Love is the object in the life
of both devil and saint.
The one demands it, the other gives it.
God created man in His own
image, and man made God in his own likeness.
What pleasure is there in a
useless action ?
What interest is there in a senseless speech ?
What joy is there in a depthless thought ?
What happiness is there in a loveless feeling ?
The image of Christ is in the
church,
the book of Christ is with the clergy,
the love of Christ is in the heart of his worshipper,
but the light of Christ shines through the illuminated souls. |
