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Dhammapada
Chapter XXIV: Thirst (338)
As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 11 (1)
If he were to strike at its stem, it would bleed, but live. If he were to strike at its top, it would bleed, but live. Pervaded by the living Self tha...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 9 (3.9.28)
Then he [i.e. Yajnavalkya] questioned them with these verses: — As a tree of the forest, Just so, surely, is man. His hairs are leaves. His skin the...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 11 (2)
'But if the life (the living Self) leaves one of its branches, that branch withers; if it leaves a second, that branch withers; if it leaves a third,...
The Masnavi
The Deadly Mosque (44-53)
I cut off your head, but that head is such That it is restored to life by being cut off!" My main object herein is to inculcate resignation, O...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (7)
Behold and consider a tree: On the outside it has a hard, gross rind or bark, which is dead, benumbed, and without vegetation—yet not quite dead, but...
Gospel of Philip
Hidden Parts (Hidden Parts)
As long as their [insides] are hidden, [most] beings in the world are alive and well. [If their insides] are exposed, they die, as is clear by the...
The Masnavi
The Vakil of the Prince of Bokhara (72-81)
Corresponding to that root grow up branches The tops of the perfect trees reach the heavens, The roots firm, and the branches in the sky. Since then...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book II (13)
From this root there grow and ripen the fruits of birth, of the life-span, of all that is tasted in life.
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (67)
Does it not afford its sap to that as well as to the others?
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (8)
But the rind is as a death, and cannot comprehend the life of the tree, but only hangeth to it, and is a cover to the tree, in which worms do harbour,...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VIII: The Use of the Symbolic Style By Poets and Philosophers. (4)
The branches either stand as the symbol of the first food, or they are that the multitude may know that fruits spring and grow universally, remaining...
Chapter 10: Of the Sixth qualifying or fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (56)
While there is sap in the wood the fire shineth as a shining light; but when the sap is consumed in the wood the shining light goeth out, and the...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (88)
But so long as the sweet water is in the stalk, the stalk retaineth its greenish colour according to the kind of the sweet quality.
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto XIII (2)
I think he thought that I perhaps might think So many voices issued through those trunks From people who concealed themselves from us; Therefore the...
Chapter 19: Concerning the Created Heaven, and the Form of the Earth, and of the Water, as also concerning Light and Darkness. Concerning Heaven. (126)
Just as an apple on a tree cannot bring its smell and taste back again into the tree, or into the earth, though it be indeed the son of the tree: So...
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...
Tao Te Ching
Tao Te Ching (76)
Man at his birth is supple and weak; at his death, firm and strong. (So it is with) all things. Trees and plants, in their early growth, are soft and...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 8 (4)
And in the same manner, my son, as food (earth) too is an offshoot, seek after its root, viz. water. And as water too is an offshoot, seek after its r...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 27: Of the Last Judgment, of the Resurrection of the Dead, and of the Eternal Life. The most horrible Gate of the Wicked, and the joyful Gate of the Godly. (3)
It is said to thee, that the Wood [or Fuel] of thy Soul shall burn in the last Fire, and that thy Soul shall remain to be Ashes in the Fire, and thy...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (92)
Yet, for all that, the astringent cannot kill the bitter, but only holds it captive, and so the strife in them is so great that the bitter breaks out ...
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