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What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Plunged in thy depth of mercy let me die
The death that every soul that lives desires.
The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown. No traveller ever reached that blessed abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not do unto others what you would not have done unto you.
In the archer there is a resemblance to the mature person. When he misses the bullseye, he turns and seeks the reason for his failure in himself.
You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.
Very religious people always shock slightly religious people by their blasphemous attitude to religion… and it was precisely for blasphemy that Jesus was crucified.
Ring the bell that still can ring.
Forget the perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.
And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said “All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them.”
The mercy of God has no limits, nothing is too great for it. That is the reason why anyone who despairs of it is the author of his own death.
Charity bears all things, is long suffering in all things. There is nothing mean to charity, nothing arrogant. Charity knows no schism, does not rebel, does all things in concord. In charity all the lect of God have been made perfect.
There is only one way of truth, but different paths from different places join it, just like tributaries flowing into a perennial river. Solomon adds that there are plenty of righteous people and plenty of routes for them. He explains this as follows: “The paths of the righteous shine like light.”
The union of the soul with soul and spirit with spirit in accordance with the sowing of the word brings growth to the seed sown and produces life. Everyone who is educated in obedience to his educator becomes a son.
When people are made righteous by philosophy they have stored help for themselves and inward perception which leads to reverence for God.
Human mercy is on one’s neighbor, but the mercy of the Lord is for all flesh… reproving, disciplining and teaching, and bringing it back as a shepherd does the flock.
The sage will serve among the greatest and appear before those who lead.
Nothing
in the world
is usual today.
This is
the first morning.
Come quickly — as soon as
these blossoms open,
they fall.
This world exists
as a sheen of dew on flowers.
