SAYINGS OF THE WISE

Sayings of the Wise

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Be and Share

Today is a Day of beautiful love...be and share!

Being Honest and Real

The mental gymnastics—of effortlessness...

. What a waste of effort. How much more useful, how much more joyful, how much easier to actually be truthful, to celebrate our efforts, to create communities around our desires and not live with the shame that the desire for effortlessness brings, Maybe all the effort that goes into being effortless could be used, in loving ourselves and loving each other better. How transformative being honest could be.

Being True

Treason, as between men, is considered worse than theft;for even thieves despise it. He who betrays his country is considered fit for death.

But I tell you:he who betrays his own soul has no longer any link with honesty, and there is nothing sure concerning him, except that he will go from bad to worse. And evil grows little by little; he who is faithless in small things will ultimately lose all honor.

Therefore, strive eternally to keep faith, not telling secrets nor inquiring uninvited into those of others; for the Great Offense is grounded on an infinite variety of little ones -- exactly as Great Merit is the total of innumerable acts of self-control.

-- FROM THE BOOK OF THE SAYINGS OF TSIANG SAMDUP. "

Beloved

When my Beloved appears,
With what eye do I see Him?
With His eye, not with mine,
For none sees Him except Himself.
O Marvel! a garden amidst the flames.
My heart has become capable of every form:
it is a pasture for gazelles and a convent for Christian monks,
and a temple for idols and the pilgrim's Kaa'ba,
and the tables of the Torah and the book of the Quran.
I follow the religion of Love: whatever way Love's camels take,
that is my religion and my faith."
Ibn Arabi