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The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain. The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master. Let there be spaces in your togetherness. No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem. Yes, there is a Nirvanah: it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem. You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price. Your daily life is your temple and your religion. The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy. Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations? Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit. The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love. Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes. The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind. Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman. You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. In much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. |