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For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.
Saint Paul, d. ca. 68 CE
A change of being cannot be brought about by any rites. Rites can only mark an accomplished transition. And it is only in pseudo-esoteric systems in which there is nothing else except these rites, that they begin to attribute to the rites an independent meaning ... Inner growth, a change of being, depends entirely upon the work which a man must do on himself.
G I Gurdjieff, 1873-1949
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
Alfred (Lord) Tennyson, 1809-1892
Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body. It does not involve loss of time, since after a day of complete rest and quietness you will return to your regular occupation with renewed interest and vigour.
Grenville Kleiser, 1868-1953
... sound and locks and keys are very closely related because the Logos sound is the universal geometrist, and sound at the sense level can resonate a given form to the point of being able to disintegrate it.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
H L Mencken, 1880-1956
Love is a kind of warfare.
Ovid, BCE 43-17 CE
Cruelty has a human heart,
William Blake, 1757-1827
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, b. 1916
We are accountable not only for what we do, but also for what we do not do.
Jean-Baptiste Moliere, 1622-1673
In delay, we waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616?
The artist, the man who has become sensitive enough, receives real meaning into his consciousness: whether he knows it or not, he is a reflection of signatures from a higher level.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533-1592
For loveliness
James Thomson, 1700-1748
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats;
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616?
An acorn is not an oak tree when it is sprouted. It must go through long summers and fierce winters; it has to endure all that frost and snow and side-striking winds can bring before it is a full grown oak. These are rough teachers; but rugged schoolmasters make rugged pupils. So a man is not a man when he is created; he is only begun. His manhood must come with years.
Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887
Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.
Sir Roger L'Estrange, 1616-1704
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
Quintillian c. 35-99 CE
Let us say again that Universal growth patterns are inbuilt into Man. His original spiritual unity makes him one conscious; the oppositions of male female, light dark, love hate, make him two conscious; the growth patterns of birth, development, decay or root, stem, flower, make him three conscious; the stability of four corners or four elements make him four conscious.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
Fame is a bee
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, 1830-1886
True Love is but a humble, low-born thing,
James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891
The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.
Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924
All common things, each day's events,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882
There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character. I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances, and does it.
William Hazlitt, 1778-1830
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882
Everywhere in musical form some deeply rooted geometry in the cosmos is being reflected and apprehended.
Herbert Whone, b. 1925
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965
Love is the mind's strong physic, and the pill
Thomas Middleton, c. 1580-1627
In every government, though terrors reign,
Oliver Goldsmith, 1731-1774
Why build these cities glorious
Edwin Markham, 1852-1940
Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then thay are able to act with vigour in what they ought to do.
Mencius, BCE 372-289
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!
As tho' to breathe were life!
And Jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secrecy the human dress.
Needs not the foreign aid or ornament,
But is, when unadorned, adorned the most.
For I am arm'd so strong in honesty
That they pass me by as the idle wind,
Which I respect not.
It has a song —
It has a sting —
Ah, too, it has a wing.
And hath its food served up in earthen ware:
It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand,
Through the everydayness of this workday world.
That with the hour begin and end,
Our pleasures and our discontents,
Are rungs by which we may ascend.
That leaves the heart sick and o'erturns the will.
Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain,
How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!
If man unbuilded goes?
In vain we build the world unless
The builder also grows.