A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Anand Thakur
A falling drop at last will carve a stone.
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Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?
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All life is a struggle in the dark.
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Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.
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Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?
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The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Such crimes has superstition caused.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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The sum of all sums is eternity.
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