Adages & Proverbs

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“I find that I am at two with Nature.”–Woody Allen
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I soooooooo get what Woody was saying.

“You cannot practice too rigid a fast from the charms of worldy talk.”–Fenelon

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom in your hands?
(Kahlil Gibran).

My house says to me,
“Do not leave me for here dwells your past.”
And the road says to me,
“Come and follow me, for I am your future.”
And I say to both my house and the road,
If I stay here, there is a going in my staying;
And if I go, there is a staying in my going …"
Kahlil Gibran

shivers…

You may forget the one with whom you have laughed …
But never the one with whom you have wept.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
― Marcel Proust

Reminds me of the fact that we cannot forget a thing - get over a thing - until we have totally remembered it.

“Our dear Saint (Francois de Sales) disapproved of immoderate fasting. He used to say that the spirit could not endure the body when overfed, but that, if underfed, the body could not endure the spirit.”–Jean Pierre Camus

Be still my soul, thy God doth undertake,

To guide the future as He has the past,

Thy hope, thy confidence, let nothing shake,

All now mysterious shall be bright at last,

Be still my soul, the waves and winds still know,

His voice who ruled them while He dwelt below

Amen

Katherine Von Schlegel

“The dog barks; the caravan passes.”–Arabian proverb

“Behold the One in all things; it is the second that leads you astray.”–Kabir

“Believe on the Lord, Jesus Christ, and thous shalt be saved, and thy house.” Paul, the Apostle - Acts 16:31

“WE make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but his image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.”–Pascal

“Thou shalt have [u]no[u] other gods before Me.” Exodus 20:3 - To Moses on Mt. Sinai from God [Jehova/Yaweh]

“Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them [idols, false gods], nor serve them; for I the LORD [Jehova/Yaweh] thy God am a jealous [zealous] God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me…” Exodus 20:5 - To Moses on Mt. Sinai from God [Jehovia/Yaweh]

“He that taketh [u]not[u] his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.” - Matthew, Apostle, tax collector

“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.”–Bhagavad Gita

“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…” Proverbs 23:7 Holy Bible, Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, King of Israel

“The will is that which has all power; it makes heaven and it makes hell; for there is no hell but where the will of the creature is turned from God, nor any heaven but where the will of the creature worketh with God.” William Law