The Voice of the Silence: Being Chosen Fragments from the Book of the Golden Precepts : for the Daily Use of Lanoos (disciples)

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Theosophical Publishing Company, 1889 - 97 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 14 - Desire nothing. Chafe not at Karma, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable. Help Nature and work on with her ; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators and make obeisance.
الصفحة 34 - Learn that no efforts, not the smallest — whether in right or wrong direction — can vanish from the world of causes. E'en wasted smoke remains not traceless. "A harsh word uttered in past lives, is not destroyed but ever comes again.
الصفحة 35 - Follow the wheel of life; follow the wheel of duty to race and kin, to friend and foe, and close thy mind to pleasures as to pain. If sun thou canst not be, then be the humble planet. Point out the "Way...
الصفحة 34 - Great Journey," (25) causes sown each hour bear each its harvest of effects, for rigid Justice rules the World. With mighty sweep of never erring action, it brings to mortals lives of weal or woe, the Karmic progeny of all our former thoughts and deeds.
الصفحة 30 - Believe thou not that sitting in dark forests, in proud seclusion and apart from men; believe thou not that life on roots and plants, that thirst assuaged with snow from the great Range — believe thou not, O Devotee, that this will lead thee to the goal of final liberation.
الصفحة 35 - To perish doomed is he, who out of fear of Mara refrains from helping man, lest he should act for Self.
الصفحة 37 - Give light and comfort to the toiling pilgrim, and seek out him who knows still less than thou ; who in his wretched desolation sits starving for the bread of wisdom and the bread which feeds the shadow, without a Teacher, hope or consolation, and let him hear the Law.
الصفحة 2 - Before the Soul can hear. the image (man) has to become as deaf to roarings as to whispers. to cries of bellowing elephants as to the silvery buzzing of the golden fire-fly.
الصفحة 11 - Strive with thy thoughts unclean before they overpower thee. Use them as they will thee, for if thou sparest them and they take root and grow, know well these thoughts will overpower and kill thee.
الصفحة 10 - Before thou set'st thy foot upon the ladder's upper rung, the ladder of the mystic sounds, thou hast to hear the voice of thy inner God (the Higher Self) in seven manners. "The first is like the nightingale's sweet voice chanting a song of parting to its mate.

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