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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
translation by Edward Fitzgerald
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And look–a thousand Roses with the Day
Woke–and a thousand scatter’d into Clay:
And this first Summer month that brings the Rose
Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away.
5.
The song I came to sing here stays unsung.
It’s still the scales, just the wish carrying me along.
I haven’t yet hit the notes. I haven’t yet fixed the words.
Within me there’s just a song’s disquiet.
The bud’s still closed. just a breath of air has stirred.
I haven’t yet seen his face. I haven’t yet heard his speech.
>From time to time I just hear his pacing feet.
He comes and goes just without my door.
The whole day’s gone in just preparing a seat.
My room’s unlit. How can I ask him in?
I hope to have him, for I haven’t had him yet.
[Calcutta, September 1909 (27 Bhadra 1316). In Gitanjali (1910).]
Rabindranath Tagore
I Won’t Let You Go – Selected Poems
Translated by Ketaki Kushari Dyson
The goblet of love is the lover’s heart, not his reason or his
sense perception. For the heart fluctuates from state to state,
just as God-who is the Beloved-is each day upon some task
(Qur’An 55:29). So the lover undergoes constant variation
of the Beloved in His acts …. Love has many diverse and
mutually opposed properties. Hence nothing receives these
properties except that which has the capacity to fluctuate along
with love. This belongs only to the heart.
~ IBN ‘ARABI
Quoted in Travelling The Path of Love
Ed. Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Gitanjali – Song Offerings by Rabindranath Tagore
16.
I have had my invitation to this world’s festival, and thus
my life has been blessed. My eyes have seen and my
ears have heard.
It was my part at this feast to play upon my instrument,
and I have done all I could.
Now, I ask, has the time come at last when I may go
in and see thy face and offer thee my silent salutation?
Says Nanak, The Master is a tree of contentment and forbearance;
Righteousness its flower, enlightenment the fruit.
This tree by joy in God keeps ever fresh and green;
By practice of meditation is it ripened.
With joy in the Lord is it consumed,
By such as dispense the supreme charity of selfless action.
Adi Granth, Var Majh, M.1, p. 147
“To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.”
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
“In the whole universe of events, none is more wonderful than the birth of
wonder.”
Cassius J. Keyser
The Gospel of Thomas
Translated by Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer
76. Jesus said, “The Father’s kingdom is like a merchant who had a supply of
merchandise and found a pearl. That merchant was prudent; he sold the
merchandise and bought the single pearl for himself.
So also with you, seek his treasure that is unfailing, that is enduring,
where no moth comes to eat and no worm destroys.”
From: Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras
When an event or object in the external world is recorded by the
senses, a thought-wave is raised in the mind. The ego-sense
identifies itself with this wave…This false identification is the cause
of all our misery (because we cling to pleasant, yet transient,
thought-waves, and shrink from unpleasant, yet unavoidable,
thought-waves)…The real Self, the Atman, remains forever outside
the power of thought-waves, it is eternally pure, enlightened and
free — the only true, unchanging happiness…
In the secret cave of the heart, two are seated by life’s fountain.
The separate ego drinks of the sweet and bitter stuff,
Liking the sweet, disliking the bitter,
While the supreme Self drinks sweet and bitter
Neither liking this nor disliking that.
The ego gropes in darkness, while the Self lives in light.
Katha Upanishad
I find myself nothing but naught and naught, O substance that cannot be
weighed!
O sea that cannot be sailed! In You and by You I find that my substance is
nothing, and above all, nothing.
~Thomas a Kempis
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