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When first you enter Wisdom’s sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there.
Farid al-Din AttarFarid al-Din Attar A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul – His dancing breaks beyond the mind’s control.
Farid al-Din AttarFarid al-Din Attar Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being.
Farid al-Din AttarFarid al-Din Attar The Sea Will be the Sea Whatever the drop’s philosophy.
Farid al-Din AttarFarid al-Din Attar Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him not, He is with you this Moment, on this Spot.
Farid al-Din AttarFarid al-Din Attar This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one’s true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.
Farid al-Din AttarFarid al-Din Attar The ocean can be yours; why should you stop Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew? The secrets of the sun are yours, but you Content yourself with motes trapped in beams.
Farid al-Din AttarFarid al-Din Attar If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets
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Leon MarshLeon Marsh Flowers only wither to bloom again. So shall you break, only to be whole again.
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Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one’s own sins.
ChanakyaChanakya Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.
ChanakyaChanakya Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
John KeatsJohn Keats God is the Seed; The Universe is the Tree, Impulses and passions are the branches, Intelligence is the flower, Pure Consciousness is the fruit, Love is the sweetness in the fruit.
Sathya Sai BabaSathya Sai Baba The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and the Brahma Sutras, which are still the delight of scholars and the inspiration of occultists and mystics.
Annie BesantAnnie Besant Time traveling through roots to birth healing fruit.
Melanie MartinezMelanie Martinez Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.
Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah