Property:HPB Gem text
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The fault of others is easily perceived, but that of oneself is difficult to perceive. +
The fields are damaged by weeds, mankind by passion. Blessed are the patient, and the passionless. +
The first duty taught in Theosophy, is to do one's duty unflinchingly by every duty. +
The fool who is angered, and who thinks to triumph by using abusive language, is always vanquished by him whose words are patient. +
The glamour of Time conceals from the weak souls of men the dark abysses around them, the terrible and mighty laws which incessantly direct their lives. +
The great watchword of the True is this – in last analysis all things are divine. +
The happy man must prepare ere the evil day comes; and when it does, let the thought that every good and great man has been made to suffer at some time console him. +
The heart of a beggar will not be content with half the universe; he is not born to a part, but to the whole. +
The heart of the fool is in his tongue; the tongue of the wise is in his heart. +
The heart which follows the rambling senses leads away his judgement as the wind leads a boat astray upon the waters. +
The husband of Pain is Rapture, but the souls are few in whom that marriage is consummated. +
The kindest policy for a strong man is not to flourish his power in the sight of a weaker man. +
The light of all flesh is the sun; the light of the soul – truth everlasting. +
The living soul is not woman, nor man, nor neuter; whatever body it takes, with that it is joined only. +
The man who finds pleasure in vice, and pain in virtue, is still a novice in both. +
The man who neglects the truth he finds in his soul, in order to follow its dead-letter, is a time-server. +
The mind, enlightened, casts its grief away!<br>
It is not to be known by knowledge! man<br>
Wotteth it not by wisdom! learning vast<br>
Halts short of it! Only by soul itself<br>
Is soul perceived – when the soul wills it so!<br>
There shines no light save its own light to show<br>
Itself unto itself! +
The more a man clothes himself in modesty, the better does he conceal his faults. +
The most precious gift received by man on earth is desire for wisdom. +
The noble delight in the noble; the base do not; the bee goes to the lotus from the wood; not so the frog, though living in the same lake. +