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Dhammapada
Chapter XVII: Anger (232)
Beware of the anger of the tongue, and control thy tongue! Leave the sins of the tongue, and practise virtue with thy tongue!
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter V: On the Symbols of Pythagoras. (4)
Aeschylus also says: "But, I, too, have a key as a guard on my tongue." Again Pythagoras commanded, "When the pot is lifted off the fire, not to leave...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 17: Of the horrible, lamentable, and miserable Fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Man 's Looking-Glass. (78)
He stands in the Gate of the Mind, where the Soul stands (before the clear Face of God) in the opened Gate; and all thy Abominations are known before ...
The Alchemy of Happiness
Concerning Self-Examination and the Recollection of God (3)
The saints have said, "Even suppose God should forgive thee, after a wasted life, thou wilt not attain to the ranks of the righteous and must deplore...
The Masnavi
Bayazid and his impious sayings when beside himself (61-69)
Close then your lips, though eloquence be possible. Keep silence; God knows the right way! The Prophet said, "O ye who regard only the outside, Many...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 25: The Suffering, Dying, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ the Son of God: Also of his Ascension into Heaven, and sitting at the Right-hand of God his Father. The Gate of our Misery; and also the strong Gate of the Divine Power in his Love. (96)
Therefore let every one enter into himself, and not speak of another, and hold his Way to be false; but look that he turn himself, and have a Care, th...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (99)
Tongue is terrified, trembles, and crouches to the nether Gums, and then the Spirit comes forth from the Heart, and closes the Word, which conceives i...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 16: Of the noble Mind of the Understanding, Senses and Thoughts. Of the threefold Spirit and Will, and of the Tincture of the Inclination, and what is inbred in a Child in the Mother's Body [or Womb.] Of the Image of God, and of the bestial Image, and of the Image of the Abyss of Hell, and Similitude of the Devil, to be searched for, and found out in a [any] one Man. The noble Gate of the noble Virgin. And also the Gate of the Woman of this World, highly to be considered. (17)
The first will fashion it according to its fierce Might and Pomp, and mingles therein prickly [stinging] Sourness, Wrath and Malice. And the second...
The Masnavi
The Arab and his Wife (191-200)
Abstinence is the prince of medicines, Abstinence is certainly the root of medicine; Practise abstinence, see how it invigorates thy soul! Accept...
The Masnavi
The Travelers who ate the Young Elephant (51-60)
"O Moses! desire protection of me With a mouth that thou hast not sinned withal." Moses answered, "I possess not such a mouth." God said, "Call upon...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 17: Of the horrible, lamentable, and miserable Fall of Adam and Eve in Paradise. Man 's Looking-Glass. (79)
The flattering and lying Devil (who has possessed thy fleshly Heart) shall feel these 1 strokes (which he will not like) and then he Earnest Zeal of R...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (100)
Against which the Wrath, with its Snarling in the astringent and bitter Quality, at the hinder Gums in the Hollow on the Tongue, struggles, and keeps...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 2 (3.2.4)
The tongue, verily, is an apprehender. It is seized by taste as an over-apprehender, for by the tongue one knows tastes.
The Masnavi
The Prophet's Scribe (21-29)
Have a care lest one day they prevail over you! He in whose breast the leaf of true faith is grown Thou makest a mock of Iblis and the Devil, Because...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIV: How A Thing May Be Involuntary. (2)
Although he also shall be punished as for a voluntary action, if one transfer the affection to the truth. For, in reality, he that cannot contain the...
Bhagavad Gita
Karma Yoga (3.41)
Therefore, O lord of the Bharatas, restrain the senses first, do thou cast off this sinful thing which is destructive of knowledge and wisdom.
Book of Enoch
Chapter XCIV (5)
And hold fast my words in the thoughts of your hearts, And suffer them not to be effaced from your hearts; For I know that sinners will tempt men to e...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (102)
Judge not, else here thou runnest counter against a strong Gate, and wilt be imprisoned; if the Wrath-fire catches thee, then thou wilt remain...
The Masnavi
Bayazid and the Saint (61-70)
If you take counsel with your lust, Even though it enjoin prayers and fasting, It is treacherously laying a snare for you.' You must abandon and...
The Masnavi
The Visions seen by the Saint Daquqi (71-80)
Criminals and sinners, even in the course of sinning, Their sins are veiled among the heart's secrets, Yet the criminal himself exposes them to view,...
Bhagavad Gita
Jnana Yoga (4.36)
Even shouldst thou be the most sinful of all the sinful, thou shalt verily cross all sin by the bark of wisdom.
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