Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Gems from the East
A Birthday Book of Precepts and Axioms
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Thought of the day:
Do not suppose you are hurt, and your complaint ceases. Cease your complaint, and you are not hurt.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus,
“Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 4, item 7
“Meditation of Marcus Aurelius”, book 4, item 7
- The man who neglects the truth he finds in his soul, in order to follow its dead-letter, is a time-server.
- (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 8:1|(...)]]
- He who feeds the hungry before he has assuaged his own hunger, prepares for himself eternal food. He who renounces that food for the sake of a weaker brother is – a god.
- (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 5:2|(...)]]
- In health and wealth man is never in want of friends. True friends, however, are those who remain when they are needed.
- (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 12:2|(...)]]
- Man who has not hesitated to project his image in space and call it the Creator, sculpted not to endow God with his own vices.
- (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 8:3|(...)]]
- Of all the animals on earth, man alone has the faculty of causing moral trouble.
- (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 12:3|(...)]]
- The soothsayer for evil never knows his own fate.
- (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 2:14|(...)]]
- Truth is brighter than the sun; truth is the sunny day of Reason, and falsehood the mind's dark night.
- (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 3:16|(...)]]
- The light of all flesh is the sun; the light of the soul – truth everlasting.
- (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 3:18|(...)]]
- Without Karma, no fisherman could catch a fish; outside of Karma, no fish would die on dry land, or in boiling water.
- (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 2:21|(...)]]
- Empty thy mind of evil, but fill it with good.
- (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 4:22|(...)]]
- Sleep is but birth into the land of Memory; birth but a sleep in the oblivion of the Past.
- (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 4:24|(...)]]
- To forgive without forgetting, is again to reproach the wrong-doer every time the act comes back to us.
- (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 4:25|(...)]]
- There is more courage in facing the world with undisguised truth, than in descending into a wild beast's den.
- (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 5:26|(...)]]
- People talk of the Devil. Every man has seen him; he is in every sinful heart.
- (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 4:29|(...)]]
- Wealth in the hands of one who thinks not of helping mankind with it, is sure to turn one day into dry leaves.
- (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 5:29|(...)]]
- Craft has the best of men; boldness conquers cities; the first is despised, the last admired.
- (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 11:29|(...)]]
- Like as the night follows the day, so misfortune is the shadow of joy; Karma bestowing her lots with both hands.
- (source unknown) [[Блаватская Е.П. - Драгоценности Востока, 5:30|(...)]]