Adages & Proverbs

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Prudence is an ugly old maid courted by incapacity.—Wm. Blake

The fox blames the trap, not himself.—Wm. Blake

Either you are a hypocrite or your beliefs are suspiciously convenient ones.

-Me

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.” -Robert Frost

Could this have a flipside? The love of virtue is the root of all economy.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
—Basho

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
—Blaise Pascal
(something poignant about that). :question:

“Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of religion.”–Wm. Blake

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“Since all the Riches of this World
May be the gifts from the Devil & Earthly Kings,
I should suspect that I worship’d the Devil
If I thanked my God for Worldy things.”–Wm. Blake

Get yourself out of the way, and let joy have more space.”
― Rumi

“you are a volume in the divine book
a mirror to the power that created the universe
whatever you want, ask it of yourself
whatever you’re looking for can only be found
inside of you”
― Rumi, The Poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi

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“The astrolabe of the mysteries of God is love”.–Rumi

“God, if I worship Thee in fear of hell, burn me in hell. And if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not Thine everlasting Beauty.”–Rabi’a (A Sufi saint.)

To see a World in a grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

Thanks. When I was a young man, Blake woke me from my “dogmatic slumber”.

“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

There are three direct instructions here.
Burn me in Hell!
Exclude me from paradise!
and withold not thine beauty!

It does not take many words to speak the truth.–Chief Joseph