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Dhammapada
Chapter I: The Twin-Verses (13)
As rain breaks through an ill-thatched house, passion will break through an unreflecting mind.
Katha Upanishad
Fourth Vallī (14)
'As rain-water that has fallen on a mountain-ridge runs down the rocks on all sides, thus does he, who sees a difference between qualities, run after...
The Masnavi
The Old Man who made no Lamentation at the Death of his Sons (21-30)
When they are swept aside, the water is seen; But when God unlooses not the hands of reason, The weeds on our water grow thick through carnal lust;...
Bhagavad Gita
Sankhya Yoga (2.67)
For, the mind which yields to the roving senses carries away his knowledge, as the wind (carries away) a ship on water.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 5: Of the Third Principle, or Creation of the material World, with the Stars and Elements; wherein the First and Second Principles are more clearly understood. (20)
So also you may see that there goes forth from it a mighty forcible Air, and that they are in one another; and besides, you see that Water is generate...
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...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (80)
Therefore also there follows a heavy, sad, sorrowful Mind, when one is to forsake that which burns in his Love-fire in the sweet Fountain Water.
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (97)
For what I here reveal or manifest, I must do it; for the Time of breaking through is at Hand: He that will now sleep, the stormy Tempest of the Fierc...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XX: The True Gnostic Exercises Patience and Self - Restraint. (19)
For as the exhalations which arise from the earth, and from marshes, gather into mists and cloudy masses; so the vapours of fleshly lusts bring on the...
The Masnavi
The Young Ducks who were brought up under a Hen (28-35)
Hence, through ignorance, sloth, and folly, Though he stands hard by us, we are shut off from him. The noise of thunder makes the head of the thirsty...
The Masnavi
Prologue (31-40)
It can hold no more than one day's store. The pitcher of the desire of the covetous never fills, The oyster-shell fills not with pearls till it is...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (108)
Where it is said, The Doctor as well as the Plowman is meant. And sometimes the Peasant or Plow-man exceeds the Doctor in Knowledge, if he adheres to ...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (145)
For when the Flash rises up in the Center, one sees through and through, but cannot well apprehend or lay hold on it; for it happens to such a one as ...
Chapter 20: Of the Second Day (32)
For thou seest that often the whole Deep is very clear and pure, and in a Quarter of an Hour is covered with watery Clouds: that is, when the Stars fr...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (78)
And whilst it is but glimmering, it is only a gentle soft longing Delight, or pleasing Lust in thee, and does not consume thee; but if thy Heart be in...
Chapter 26: Of the Planet Saturnus (73)
Now here thou mayest understand, how the Heart of God has the Fan or Casting-shovel in its Hand, and will one Day cleave his Floor, which I herewith...
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 Lightening, and shine into thee, and...
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (74)
But when this was done, so that the anxious Birth or Geniture stood so severely in the Heat, then the Love in the Light of God broke through the Heave...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (72)
For when thou lookest upon any Thing which does not please thee, but is against or contrary to thee, then thou raisest up the Fountain of thy Heart, a...
Corpus Hermeticum
12. About The Common Mind (10)
Thou said'st that Mind in lives irrational worked in them as [their] nature, co-working with their impulses. But impulses of lives irrational, as I...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Knowledge of Self (9)
This opening of a window in the heart towards the unseen also takes place in conditions approaching those of prophetic inspiration, when intuitions...
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