We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet To think how monie counsels sweet, How monie lengthened sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises.
One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly 200 years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow loaves of bread. Instead He created wheat for us to mill and bake into bread. Why? So that we could be HIs partners in completing the work of creation.
One cannot apologize for something fundamental, and a child feels and knows this as well and as deeply as any sage.
The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.
Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art,. . . That, and I know how to use a dictionary
The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.
In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.
Without going outside, you may know the whole world, without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven. The farther you go, the less you know. Thus the sage knows without traveling; he sees without looking; he works without doing.
When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.
The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.
The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness.
From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
The inner is the foundation of the outer. The still is master of the restless. The Sage travels all day yet never leaves his inner treasure.
Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you.
He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reverend sage. "We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually.
The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
Whose lines are mottoes of the heart,Whose truths electrify the sage.
The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness.