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Dhammapada
Chapter XIII: The World (172)
He who formerly was reckless and afterwards became sober, brightens up this world, like the moon when freed from clouds.
The Masnavi
The Harper (34-43)
Sobriety is wrong, and a straying from that other road. O thou who seekest to be contrite for the past, How wilt thou be contrite for this...
The Masnavi
The Disciple who blindly imitated his Shaikh (12-22)
When the vessel leaves the fountain, it sees its error; The glass also learns, when the moon sets, When his eyes are opened by the command, "Arise!" T...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (20)
Now if any one should in drunkenness or fulness fall upon them, and plunge himself into perdition, let him bear his own blame; he has need of a light...
The Masnavi
The Harper (23-33)
Then 'Omar said to him, "This wailing of thine Shows thou art still in a state of ' sobriety."' Afterwards he thus urged him to quit that state And...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book IV (29)
He who, after he has attained, is wholly free from self, reaches the essence of all that can be known, gathered together like a cloud. This is the...
The Path of Light
Chapter 5: Watchfulness (5)
He who is thus master of himself will ever bear a smiling face; he will put away frowns and be first to greet others, a friend of the world. He will...
The Masnavi
The Mule and the Camel (21-30)
When I had forgotten my prosperous condition, And knew not that the grief and ills I experienced Were the effect of sleep and illusion and fancy? In l...
Katha Upanishad
Third Vallī (8)
'But he who has understanding, who is mindful and always pure, reaches indeed that place, from whence he is not born again.'
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VIII, Khanda 4 (2)
Therefore when that bank has been crossed, night becomes day indeed, for the world of Brahman is lighted up once for all .
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC ETHICAL SENTENCES FROM STOBÆUS, Which are omitted in the Opuscula Mythologica, &c. of Gale. (23)
Pythagoras being asked, how a lover of wine might be cured of intoxication, answered, if he frequently surveys what his actions were when he was...
The Conference of the Birds
The Query of the Nineteenth Bird (4)
A man who drank too much of that which is limpid, often came to the point when he lost both his senses and his selfrespect. Once, a friend came...
Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching (28)
Who knows his manhood's strength, Yet still his female feebleness maintains; As to one channel flow the many drains, All come to him, yea, all...
Katha Upanishad
Third Vallī (6)
'But he who has understanding and whose mind is always firmly held, his senses are under control, like good horses of a charioteer.'
The Masnavi
Counsels of Reserve given by the Prophet to his Freedman Zaid (23-33)
I still am dark compared to the Sun, Therefore is my light weak, that you may bear it, I have, as it were, mixed honey with vinegar, When you are cure...
Bhagavad Gita
Karma Sanyāsa Yoga (5.23)
He who is able to endure the impulse of desire and anger even in this world before the fall of the body, is the harmonised, and he is the happy man.
Life of Pythagoras
PYTHAGORIC ETHICAL SENTENCES FROM STOBÆUS, Which are omitted in the Opuscula Mythologica, &c. of Gale. (7)
When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.
The Masnavi
The Elephant in a Dark Room (22-31)
When you pluck up your foot you escape from the mire, When you obtain salvation at God's hands, O wanderer, You are free from the mire, and go your...
Teachings of Silvanus
Teachings of Silvanus (24)
O soul, persistent one, be sober and shake off your drunkenness, which is the work of ignorance. If you persist and live in the body, you dwell in...
The Masnavi
Bayazid and the Saint (131-140)
O heart haste thither, for God will shine upon you, He will infuse into your soul a new soul, So as to fill you, like a goblet, with wine. Take up...
The Masnavi
The Lion, the Fox, and the Ass (22-31)
From the agitation of doubt, and is firm in the faith. Till the foam has landed on the shore and dry land, Which is its home, it is ever tossed to...