Speaking to an audience of understanding men Is like watering a bed of growing plants. Those who speak good things to good and learned gatherings Should never say them to ignorant groups, even forgetfully. Speaking before men of alien mind Is like pouring sweet nectar down a drain.
- Tirukkural 72:718-720
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It is hard to be born as a human being and hard to live the life of one. It is even harder to hear of the path and harder still to awake, to rise, and to follow. Yet the teaching is simple: "Cease to do evil, learn to do good. And purify your mind."
- Dhammapada
One springtime Rabia entered a house, and did not come out. A follower said to her: Come outside, and see the beauties of the creation. Rabia said: Come inside, and see the creator. If you see the creator, you become too preoccupied to look at the creation.
- Attar, "Rabi'a"
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[T]he soul renounced shall abide in the boundlessness of God's life. This is liberty, this is prosperity. The more we lose, the more we gain.
- Watchman Nee
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What is yours is not yours, then how can you regard what is not yours as yours?
- Talmud: Derek Eretz
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