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All it has experienced, tasted, suffered: The course of years, generations of animals, Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind Will pour forth each day in the song Of its rustling foliage, in the friendly Gesture of its gently swaying crown, In the delicate sweet scent of resinous Sap moistening the sleep-glued buds, And the eternal game of lights and Shadows it plays with itself, content. Herman Hesse		Tuesday Jul 15, 2025
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Sow kindly acts and thou shalt reap their fruition. Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin. Elena Petrovna Gan

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	Elena Petrovna Gan
	Elena Petrovna Gan (Russian: Елена Петровна Ган, also Hélène, July 30 - July 31, 1831 (O.S.) (August 12, 1831 (N.S.)) Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire — May 8, 1891 London), better known as Helena Blavatsky (Russian: Елена Блаватская) or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of the Theosophical Society. Read More

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Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.

Thou canst not travel on the path Before thou hast become that Path itself.

This earth is but the dismal entrance leading to the twilight that precedes the valley of true light, that light which no wind can extinguish, that light which burns without a wick or fuel.

Sow kindly acts and thou shalt reap their fruition. Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin.

Shun praise. Praise leads to self-delusion. Thy body is not self, thy self is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.

The Universe is the periodical manifestation of the unknown absolute essence.

Our only true course is to let the motive for action be in the action itself, never in its reward; not to be incited By the hope of the result, nor yet indulge a propensity for inertness.

The present is only a mathematical line which divides that part of eternal duration which we call the future, from that which we call the past.

Thou shalt not separate thy being from being, and the rest, but merge the ocean in the deep, the drop within the ocean.

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

Spirit is living, and life is spirit, and life and spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two

When he has ceased to hear the many, he may discern the one - the inner sound which kills the outer.

The roots of faith rest in understanding, the synthetic principle of consciousness.

Before the soul can see, the harmony within must be attained, and fleshly eyes be rendered blind to all illusion.

A creature of a more exalted kind was wanting yet, and therefore was designed; Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast for empire formed and fit to rule the rest

Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought.

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.

Desire nothing, chafe not at fate, nor at nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable.

Fire is the most perfect and unadulterated reflection, in heaven as on Earth, of the one flame. It is life and death, the origin and the end of every material thing. It is divine substance.

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal. The giant weed (of evil) cannot flower there; this blot upon existence is wiped out by the very atmosphere of eternal thought.

Let not the fierce sun dry one tear of pain before thyself hast wiped it from the sufferer's eye.

Knowledge increases in proportion to its use -that is, the more we teach the more we learn.