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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...
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 example of the visible part of a person.…
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...
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 it is not quite...
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 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (8)
But the Rind is as it were dead, and cannot comprehend the Life of the Tree, but only hangs to it, and is a Cover to the Tree in which Worms harbour, ...
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 other?
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...
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...
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...
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (101)
And that is, because the astringent and bitter Spirits have killed or destroyed the Body of the Water, and attracted the Fatness or Unctuosity thereof...
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...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 8 (6)
As water is an offshoot, seek after its root, viz. fire. As fire is an offshoot, seek after its root, viz. the True. Yes, all these creatures, O son, ...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (49)
But it cannot alter the Kernel of the sharp Birth, but is generated out of it, and keeps its holy new Life to itself, and presses through the angry De...
Bundahishn
Chapter XXI (5)
So, also, the growth of plants is connected, in this manner, strongly with the root; so, likewise, the blessings (âfrîn) which the righteous utter, co...
The Masnavi
The Mule and the Camel (11-20)
The disciple's shadow is from that bough. When the shadows in the disciples cease, For, O fortunate one, how can the shadow move, Unless the tree...
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