“All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are, humility gives it its power. If you want to govern the people, you must place yourself below them. if you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them.”
∼Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching ~
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'It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.'
~ Epictetus ~

'Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.'
~ Frank Auerbach ~

'To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.'
~ Charles Dudley Warner ~

'To see things in the seed, that is genius.'
~ Laozi ~

'A seed grows with no sound but a tree falls with huge noise destruction has noise but creation is quiet. This is the power of silence… grow silently.'
~ Confucius ~
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'Focus your eyes here on the truth, since the veil is now so thin“

--- Dante Alighieri

The truth of the matter, gentlemen, is pretty certainly this, that real wisdom is the property of God, and human wisdom has little or no value. ~Plato

'But few prize honour more than money.'
~ Sallust ~

'Does money upset the hearts of learned men?
He answered,
'Men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned'
~ Al-Ghazali ~

Of Books & Serendipity

Often we wander into an old bookshop with no titles in mind, with a sense of discovery like sailing into a terra incognita. And when we finally hold that serendipitous book, we wonder if instead of just finding it, it was meant to find us all along.

'The virtuous need but a few laws; for it is not the law which determines their actions, but their actions which determine the law'

-Theophrastus, quoted in Stobaeus' Florilegium 5th c. AD

'Your written laws are like spiders' webs; they would only entangle the poor and weak who might be caught in them, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful'

-Anacharsis the Scythian discussing Solon's laws with him, as quoted by Plutarch in his 'Life of Solon'

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste;
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste:And therefore is love said to be a child,
Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.
W. Shakespeare

Что есть Присутствие, как не сущность, осознающая себя? Простой и нежный ребёнок.
«Пробуждение»

Аньоло Бронзино
Портрет Биа Медичи, дочери Козимо Медичи, 1542 г.
Галерея Уффици, Флоренция

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. Rumi

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path. ~ Gautama Buddha

“Our thinking machine possesses the capacity to be convinced of anything you like, provided it is repeatedly and persistently influenced in the required direction.”
~ George Gurdjieff ~

“Without self-knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.'
~George Gurdjieff ~

“The Evolution of Man Is The Evolution Of His Consciousness.'
~ George Gurdjieff.~