Property:HPB Gem text
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As many passions of the soul, so many fierce and savage despots. +
As rain does not break through a well-thatched house, passion will not break through a well-reflecting mind. +
As the bee collects nectar, and departs without injuring the flower, or its color or scent, so let a Sage dwell in his village. +
As the spider moving upward by his thread gains free space, thus also he who undertakes moving upward by the known word OM, gains independence. +
As the streams of a river flow on, and return not, so pass away the days and nights, taking away the lives of men. +
As two pieces of wood may come together in the ocean, and having met, may separate again; like this is the meeting of mortals. +
At present your nature is distinct; but ere long you will vanish into the whole: you will be returned into that universal reason which gave you your being. +
At the end of a life of study, the man possessed of knowledge approaches Deity; and at the end of many lives, the wise man becomes one with the ALL. +
Bathe in the river of the soul, O man, for not with water is the soul washed clean. +
Be not a friend to the wicked – charcoal when hot, burns; when cold, it blackens the fingers. +
Be persuaded that those things are not your riches which you do not possess in the penetralia of the reasoning power. +
Behold, we know not anything;<br>
I can but trust that good shall fall<br>
At last — far off — at last, to all,<br>
And every winter change to spring.<br>
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So runs my dream: but what am I?<br>
An infant crying in the night:<br>
An infant crying for the light:<br>
And with no language but a cry. +
Better it would be that a man should eat a lump of flaming iron than that one should break his vows. +
By a trusty friend is man supported in life, and by reward are friendships increased. +
By oneself the evil is done, by oneself one suffers; by oneself the evil is left undone, by oneself one is purified. +
By perfection in study and meditation the Supreme Spirit becomes manifest; study is one eye to behold it, and meditation is the other. +
By shaking hands with deceit, one is tossed on the billows of toil. +
By the fall of water-drops the pitcher is gradually filled; this is the cause of wisdom, of virtue, and of wealth. +
By truth alone is man's mind purified, and by right discipline it doth become inspired. +
By wisdom is the gift of knowledge displayed; by knowledge are high things obtained. +