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Dhammapada
Chapter XVI: Pleasure (215)
From love comes grief, from love comes fear; he who is free from love knows neither grief nor fear.
Meister Eckhart - Sermons
Sermon VII: Outward And Inward Morality (15)
This passage from nothingness to real being, this quitting of oneself is a birth accompanied by pain, for by it natural love is excluded. All grief...
Bhagavad Gita
Bhakti Yoga (12.15)
He by whom the world is not afflicted and whom the world cannot afflict, he who is free from joy and anger, fear and anxiety— he is dear to Me.
The Masnavi
Luqman's Master examines him and discovers his Acuteness (11-19)
Through love the dead rise to life, Even when an evil befalls you, have due regard; The sight which regards the ebb and flow of good and ill Thence...
Meister Eckhart - Sermons
Sermon VII: Outward And Inward Morality (3)
All outward morality must be built upon this basis, not on self-interest. As long as man loves something else than God, or outside God, he is not...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter IX: The Gnostic Free of All Perturbations of the Soul. (6)
For love is not desire on the part of him who loves; but is a relation of affection, restoring the Gnostic to the unity of the faith, - independent of...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XII: Twofold Faith. (2)
As, then, the days are a portion of life in its progress, so also fear is the beginning of love, becoming by development faith, then love. But it is...
Bhagavad Gita
Sankhya Yoga (2.56)
He whose mind is not troubled in sorrow, who does not hanker after pleasures and is free from attachment fear and hatred, is called the sage of...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter IX: The Gnostic Free of All Perturbations of the Soul. (2)
And should it be granted that the affections specified above, when produced rationally, are good, yet they are nevertheless inadmissible in the case o...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 3 (4.3.21)
This, verily, is that form of his which is beyond desires, free from evil, without fear. As a man, when in the embrace of a beloved wife, knows...
Chuang Tzu
Knowledge Travels North. (13)
Joy and sorrow come and go, and over them I have no control. "Alas! the life of man is but as a stoppage at an inn. He knows that which comes within...
Gospel of Philip
Knowledge and Love (Knowledge and Love)
Whoever knows the truth is free, and a free person does not sin, for “one who sins is a slave of sin.” Truth is the mother, knowledge is the father....
Bhagavad Gita
Sankhya Yoga (2.57)
He who has no attachment to anything anywhere, who does not rejoice and hate when good and bad things happen, his wisdom is fixed and steady.
The Masnavi
The Mosalman who tried to convert a Magian (1-11)
Love is a perfect muzzle of evil suggestions; Without love who ever succeeded in stopping them? Be a lover, and seek that fair Beauty, Hunt for that...
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...
Gospel of Philip
Whoever Leaves the World (Whoever Leaves the World)
Whoever leaves the world can no longer be held back as if still in the world. Such a person clearly is beyond desire…and fear, is dominant…, and is...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XVII (5)
While in the first it well directed is, And in the second moderates itself, It cannot be the cause of sinful pleasure; But when to ill it turns, and,...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter IX: The Gnostic Free of All Perturbations of the Soul. (3)
Nor is he angry; for there is nothing to move him to anger, seeing he ever loves God, and is entirely turned towards Him alone, and therefore hates no...
Katha Upanishad
Second Vallī (22)
'The wise who knows the Self as bodiless within the bodies, as unchanging among changing things, as great and omnipresent, does never grieve.'
The Path of Light
Chapter 8: The Perfect Contemplation (4)
The mortal who thinks of his gains or his honours or the favour of many men will be afraid of death when it falls upon him. Whatsoever it be in which...
The Masnavi
Luqman's Master examines him and discovers his Acuteness (1-10)
Through love bitter things seem sweet, Through love dregs taste like pure wine, Through love thorns become roses, Through love the stake becomes a...
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