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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and read more
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its read more
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job v.7.
Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job v.7.
Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and read more
Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.
O you much partial gods!
Why gave ye men affections, and not power
To govern them?
O you much partial gods!
Why gave ye men affections, and not power
To govern them?
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, read more
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
