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Dhammapada
Chapter XXIV: Thirst (337)
This salutary word I tell you, 'Do ye, as many as are here assembled, dig up the root of thirst, as he who wants the sweet-scented Usîra root must dig up the Bîrana grass, that Mâra (the tempter) may not crush you again and again, as the stream crushes the reeds.'
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (101)
Then thou seest that the body upon the root is dead also; for when the virtue is gone out of the root, then the body is but a dead carcass and can...
Chapter 9: Of the Gracious, amiable, blessed, friendly and merciful Love of God. The Great, Heavenly and Divine Mystery. (51)
And first the sweet. For in the sweet water the bitter spirit is refreshed, and therein it quencheth its great thirst; and its bitterness is therein m...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (114)
Behold! man becometh weak, faint and sick, and if no remedy be used, then he soon falls into death. The sickness is caused either by some bitter and...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (75)
Hearken, thou hast the sweet water in thee, pour that into the fire, and then the fire goeth out: If thou lettest it burn, then it consumeth in thee...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (87)
For the thin water seeketh for the valley, and is a humility of the life, which did not exalt itself, as the astringent and the bitter qualities, and ...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 8 (5)
Therefore as they speak of a cow-leader (go-nâya), of a horse-leader (asva-nâya), of a man-leader (purusha-nâya), so they call fire udanyâ, thirst, i....
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (97)
For when the unctuosness or fat in the sweet water dieth, then it is turned into an anguishing sweat, in which the astringent and the bitter qualify, ...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 7: Looking at Living Beings (19)
Manjusri asked: “What is the root of the body?” Vimalakirti replied: “Craving is the root of the body.”
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XLV. At the Feast of the Tabernacle—opinions Divided (25)
If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (116)
So now, if thou minglest with this water or powder some good treacle or the like, which holdeth captive the rising up and the power of the wrath in th...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (105)
The sweet water is the beginning of nature, and the astringent quality draweth or attracteth it together, that it becomes natural and creatural, to...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (149)
There the bitter quality raveth and rageth, and seeketh for rest and food, and finds it not, and moveth or boileth in the body as a lingering poison.
The Masnavi
The Vakil of the Prince of Bokhara (82-91)
When in this heart the lightning spark of love arises, When the love of God arises in thy heart, The noise of clapping of hands is never heard From on...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (86)
But when the sweet water can defend itself no longer, then anguish riseth up in it; just as in man, when he is dying, when the spirit is departing fro...
The Secret of the Golden Flower
Circulation of the Light and Protection of the Centre (3)
Man's heart stands under the fire sign (8). The flames of the fire press upward. When both eyes are looking at things of the world it is with vision...
Chapter 3: Of the most blessed Triumphing, Holy, Holy, Holy Trinity, GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, ONE only God. (11)
But the soul thirsteth after the heavenly holy Father, and he giveth meat and drink to it, feeding it with his holy Spirit, and the spring, source or ...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXVIII (6)
The water which thou seest springs not from vein Restored by vapour that the cold condenses, Like to a stream that gains or loses breath; But issues...
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...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CXLIX (56)
The gods and the glorious ones look at its water from afar, they do not quench their thirst, and their heart is not set at rest, because they may not...
Chapter 13: Of the terrible, doleful, and lamentable, miserable Fall of the Kingdom of Lucifer. (102)
The sweet spring or fountain-water is generated by the driving about or rising up of the spirits, for when the light is generated in the heat, then...
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