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Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.
So on he went, and on the way he thought of all the glorious things of yesterday, nought of the price whereat they must be bought, but ever to himself did softly say "no roaming now, my wars are passed away, no long dull days devoid of happiness, when such a love my yearning heart shall bless."
Art | Civilization | Competition | Life | Life | Means | System | Will | Art |
Douglas Adams, fully Douglas Noel Adams
These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vastly hyperintelligent pandimensional beings.
There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.
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We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
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The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
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Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas it is only the means of obtaining it.
The faults of the soul are like body injuries: some care we take to heal, the scar still looks, and they are in danger at any time to reopen.
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
From the vaikrita form of individuation proceeds the eleven-fold set characterized by goodness (sattva); from the bhutadi form of individuation proceed the subtle elements (tanmatras). In this, darkness (tamas) dominates. Both of these proceed from taijasa ahankara, in which rajas dominates.
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
Non-discriminativeness and the rest are proved by the existence of the three gunas and by the non-existence of these in their absence. The unmanifest is demonstrated by the effect possessing the properties of the cause.
Complacency | Enjoyment | Luck | Means | Nature | Time | Luck |
Murasaki Shikibu, aka Lady Murasaki
The hanging gate, of something like trelliswork, was propped on a pole, and he could see that the house was tiny and flimsy. He felt a little sorry for the occupants of such a place--and then asked himself who in this world had a temporary shelter.
Better | Cause | Enough | Generosity | Guidance | Husband | Little | Magnanimity | Man | Means | Memory | Patience | Quiet | Resentment | Wife | Will | Woman | Guidance | Guilty |
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
Possessed of this self-knowledge, and the proliferation of Nature having ceased (owing to its withdrawal from its seven modes), the Self stands apart and at ease, like a spectator.
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Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
Nature by herself binds herself by seven modes, and by means of one mode (knowledge), releases herself for the sake of the Self.