Property:HPB Gem text
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B
The soul ripens in tears. +
The spirit it is, that, under the myriad illusions of life, works steadily towards its goal; silently, imperceptibly, irresistibly, moving on to divinity. +
The subtle self is to be known by thought alone; for every thought of men is interwoven with the senses, and when thought is purified, then the self arises. +
The sun causes day and night, divine and human. Night is for the sleep of beings, day for the performance of their duty. +
The virtuous man cannot be hurt, the misery that his enemy would inflict comes back on himself. +
The virtuous man who is happy in this life, is sure to be still happier in his next. +
The wheel of sacrifice has Love for its nave, Action for its tire, and Brotherhood for its spokes. +
The wise guard the home of nature's order; they assume excellent forms in secret. +
The wise man does good as naturally as he breathes. +
The wise man is he who can either take or leave those so-called necessities of life with which other people are intemperate. +
The wise who knows the Self as bodiless within the bodies, as unchanging among changing things, as great and omnipresent, does never grieve. +
The wolf changes his coat, and the serpent his skin, but not their nature. +
The world exists by cause; all things exist by cause; and beings are bound by cause, even as the rolling cart-wheel by the pin of an axle-tree. +
The worst of maladies is envy; the best of medicines is health. +
The young of the raven appears to it a nightingale. +
Theosophy is not the acquirement of powers, whether psychic or intellectual, though both are its servants. +
Theosophy is the science of life, the art of living. +
Theosophy is the vehicle of the spirit that giveth life; consequently, nothing dogmatic can be Theosophical. +
There are four things of which a little goes on a long way: pain, poverty, error, and enmity. +
There are three things of which one never tires: health, life and wealth. +