Adages & Proverbs

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

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

So true…

LOVE this!!!

Simplicity–
“A simple heart will love all that is most precious on earth, husband or wife, parent or child, brother or friend, without marring its singleness. . .”-N. Grou

Grou is simply saying that you can love a person without trying to change him/her. , that you should respect the integrity of another.

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment;
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.”–Rumi

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
― Anne Frank

Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
:sad-teareye:

There is as much within that little space within the heart as there is in the whole world outside.
Heaven, earth, fire, wind, sun, moon, lightening, stars: whatever is and whatever is not, everything is there.
Chandogya Upanishad

“But they are useless. They can only give you answers.”
— Pablo Picasso

“Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.”. —Wm Blake

“Goodness needeth not to enter into the soul, for it is there already, only it is unperceived.”–Theologia Germanica

An ideal society must have old eyes and young legs - Myself.

with love,
sanjay

Intelligence is how much one can learn, knowledge is how much one has been learned so far, and wisdom is how one uses his intelligence and knowlwdge - Myself.

with love.
sanjay

Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us”
― Pablo Neruda

“Love is the mystery of water and a star.”
― Pablo Neruda