Mikhail Naimy on maze
Mikhail Naimy20 quotes“If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful maze, it is because you are that woeful maze.”
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Take care that you hold not your priceless life so cheap as gold.
Mikhail NaimyMikhail Naimy He who did not taste Freedom on Earth, will not know it in Heaven!
Mikhail NaimyMikhail Naimy To feed on death is to become food for death. To live by other’s pain is to become a prey for pain. So has decreed the omni-will. Know that and choose your course !
Mikhail NaimyMikhail Naimy As you die continually when living. So do you live continually when dead; if not in this body, then in a body of another form.
Mikhail NaimyMikhail Naimy Men and women yearners must realize their unity even while in the flesh; not by communion of the flesh, but by the Will to Freedom from the flesh and all the impediments it places in their way to perfect Unity and Holy Understanding.
Mikhail NaimyMikhail Naimy Whoever cannot find a temple in his heart, the same can never find his heart in any temple.
Mikhail NaimyMikhail Naimy So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.
Mikhail NaimyMikhail Naimy Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.
Mikhail NaimyMikhail Naimy No love is Love that subjugates the Lover. No love is Love that feeds on flesh and blood. No love is Love that draws a woman to a man only to breed more women and men and thus perpetuate their bondage to the flesh.
Mikhail NaimyMikhail Naimy Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion.
Mikhail NaimyMikhail Naimy Love is the law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love that you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of Man.
Mikhail NaimyMikhail Naimy Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.
Mikhail NaimyMikhail Naimy When Love gives, it gives all; when it takes, it takes all. It’s very taking is giving.
Mikhail NaimyMikhail Naimy The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face.
Mikhail NaimyMikhail Naimy Your breath upon the wind shall surely lodge within some breast. Ask not whose breast it is. See only that the breath itself be pure.
Mikhail NaimyMikhail Naimy How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.
Mikhail NaimyMikhail Naimy
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I found myself in a maze where I’d taken the wrong turn. In my wish to do well for that congregation I wasn’t doing particularly well for myself or my friends or my family, and I even found that the work for God was taking me away from God.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.
William GoldingWilliam Golding An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
E. O. WilsonE. O. Wilson It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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