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Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book I (14)
This becomes a firm resting-place, when followed long, persistently, with earnestness.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 1 (3)
He who knows the firm rest, becomes himself firm in this world and in the next. The eye indeed is the firm rest.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The All-Determining Influence of Thought (26.17)
Earnest prayer in this form will be sure to guide thee along; thou mayst rest assured that thou wilt not be deceived. Of great importance is this:...
The Secret of the Golden Flower
Circulation of the Light and Protection of the Centre (7)
Everything depends on there being no interruption. The beginning and the end of the work must be one. In between there are cooler and warmer moments, ...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of Self (4)
Koran: "Those who strive in Our way, verily We will guide them to the right paths."
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 24: Of True Repentance: How the poor Sinner may come to God again in his Covenant, and how he may be released of his Sins. The Gate of the Justification of a poor Sinner before God. A clear Looking-Glass. (27)
Beloved Mind, if thou hast a Desire to this Way, and wouldst attain it, and the noble Virgin in the Tree of Pearl, then thou must use great...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 24: Of True Repentance: How the poor Sinner may come to God again in his Covenant, and how he may be released of his Sins. The Gate of the Justification of a poor Sinner before God. A clear Looking-Glass. (30)
Thou must continue steadfast in this resolute Purpose; and though thou gettest no Virtue [or Strength] into thy Heart, and though the Devil also...
The Path of Light
Chapter 8: The Perfect Contemplation (1)
WHEN thus vigour has been nurtured, it is well to fix the thought in concentred effort; the man of wandering mind lies between the fangs of the...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 1 (6.1.3)
Verily, he who knows the firm basis (prati-stha) has a firm basis (verb prati-stkd) on even ground, has a firm basis on rough ground. The Eye,...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 15: Of the a Knowledge of the Eternity in the Corruptibility of the Essence of all Essences. (23)
It goes very hard, when the [Grain of] Mustard-Seed is sown, for the Devil opposes strongly, but whosoever perseveres, finds by Experience what is...
Chapter 6: How an Angel, and how a Man, is the Similitude and Image of God. (39)
If thou holdest on in thy earnestness, and wilt not give over, then will this fire come suddenly upon thee, like lightning, and shine into thee; and...
The Secret of the Golden Flower
Mistakes During the Circulation of the Light (2)
When one sets out to carry out one's decision, care must be taken to see that everything can proceed in a comfortable, easy manner. Too much must not...
Theologia Germanica
Chapter XXII (22.3)
The second is, a copy or ensample by which thou mayest learn. The third is to give earnest heed to the master, and watch how he worketh, and to be obe...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 4: Of the shortness of this work, and how it may not be come to by the curiosity of wit, nor by imagination (7)
For if it be truly conceived, it is but a sudden stirring, and as it were unadvised, speedily springing unto God as a sparkle from the coal. And it is...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Third Method of Closing the Womb-Door (32.9)
Meditating thus, resolve firmly that thou wilt hold on to that [resolution]. It hath been said, in the Tantras, 'The door of the womb will be closed...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The First Method of Closing the Womb-Door (30.6)
At this time, thou must form, without distraction, one single resolve in thy mind. The forming of one single resolve is very important now. It is...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 41: That in all other works beneath this, men should keep discretion; but in this none (2)
I say not that thou shalt continue ever therein alike fresh, for that may not be. For sometime sickness and other unordained dispositions in body and...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XVII: Philosophy Conveys Only An Imperfect Knowledge of God. (12)
And thence they love to be learners, and aspiring after knowledge, haste to salvation.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 12: That by virtue of this work sin is not only destroyed, but also virtues begotten (1)
For this is only by itself that work that destroyeth the ground and the root of sin. Fast thou never so much, wake thou never so long, rise thou never...
Book of Enoch
Chapter LXIX (19)
And through that oath are the depths made fast, And abide and stir not from their place from eternity to eternity.
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (153)
If you lay hold on the Heart of God, then you have ground enough.
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