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Salomon ibn Gabirol, aka Solomon ben Judah or Avicebron
THE MESSIAH - Lord, tell me when Shall come to men Messiah blest, When shall Thy care His couch prepare To be my guest, To sleep on my golden bed, in my palace rest. Wake, dear gazelle, Shake off thy spell, Nor slumber still. Dawn like a flag Surmounts the crag Of Tabor’s hill, And its flame it unfurls o’er my Hermon, the hoar and chill. From the wild-ass brood To the grace renewed Of Thy dainty roe, O Lord, return, For behold we yearn Our love to show, And our soul with Thy soul at one as of yore to know. Thrice welcome he Who comes to me Of David’s line, My palace treasure Is at his pleasure With all that’s mine, My pomegranate, cinnamon, spice, and the jars of my old sweet wine.
Art | Day | Enemy | Heart | Hope | Knowledge | Land | Light | Looks | Passion | Sacrifice | Sin | Soul | Spirit | Tears | Vengeance | Will | Wisdom | Work | Art | Child | Friends |
Karl Popper, fully Sir Karl Raimund Popper
Nationalism appeals to our tribal instincts, to passion and to prejudice, and to our nostalgic desire to be relieved from the strain of individual responsibility which it attempts to replace by a collective or group responsibility.
Rudolf Steiner, fully Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner
The world fires us when we paint. Behind the sense world are not atoms and molecules, but spiritual beings...what emerges in painting is the restoration of the supersensible, a revelation in our spatial environment and, from outside space, the spiritual world penetrating us -- the world in which we find ourselves between falling asleep and awakening.
Rudolf Steiner, fully Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner
Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe... Anthroposophists are those who experience, as an essential need of life, certain questions on the nature of the human being and the universe, just as one experiences hunger and thirst.
God | Individual | Knowledge | God |
To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it, as dangerous and swarming with snakes.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.
Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL
Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace.
What was God to do in the face of the dehumanizing of mankind -- this universal hiding of the knowledge of Himself? So burdened were men with their wickedness that they seemed rather to be brute beasts than reasonable men, reflecting the very likeness of the Word. What, then, was God to do? What else could He possibly do, being God, but renew His Image in mankind, so that through it men might once more come to know Him?... Men had turned from the contemplation of God above, and were looking for Him in two opposite directions, down among created things, and things of sense.
Whoever has his foe at his mercy, and does not kill him, is his own enemy.
You will not see anyone who is really striving after his advancement who is not given to spiritual reading. And as to him who neglects it, the fact will soon be observed by his progress.
Contemplation | God | Knowledge | Mankind | Men | Wickedness | God | Contemplation |
Rutherford B. Hayes, fully Rutherford Birchard Hayes
As to Mr. Lincoln’s name and fame and memory, — all is safe. His firmness, moderation, goodness of heart; his quaint humor, his perfect honesty and directness of purpose; his logic his modesty his sound judgment, and great wisdom; the contrast between his obscure beginnings and the greatness of his subsequent position and achievements; his tragic death, giving him almost the crown of martyrdom, elevate him to a place in history second to none other of ancient or modern times. His success in his great office, his hold upon the confidence and affections of his countrymen, we shall all say are only second to Washington’s; we shall probably feel and think that they are not second even to his.
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
Ye have enemies; for who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can thy enemy so hurt thee by his violence, as thou dost hurt thyself if thou love him not. And let it not seem to you impossible to love him. Believe first that it can be done, and pray that the will of God may be done in you. For what good can thy neighbor's ill do to thee? If he had no ill, he would not even be thine enemy. Wish him well, then, that he may end his ill, and he will be thine enemy no longer. For it is not the human nature in him that is at enmity with thee, but his sin.
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find.
Saint Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone NULL
Should there be a brother anywhere in the world who has sinned, no matter how great soever his fault may be, let him not go away after he has once seen thy face without showing pity towards him; and if he seek not mercy, ask him if he does not desire it. And by this I will know if you love God and me.
Body | Day | Death | Devil | Guilt | Heart | Knowledge | Lord | Man | Nothing | Sin | Soul | Thought | Will | World | Think | Thought |