Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie
Dust unto dust
The calm earth mothers all who die
As all men must
Mourn not your captive comrades who must dwell
Too strong to strive
Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell,
Buried alive;
But rather mourn the apathetic throng
The cowed and the meek
Who see earth’s great languish and its wrong
And dare not speak.
Life is given.
Nothing is earned, so learn
to serve others, not your own desire
and greed and ego. They steal your energies,
whereas devotion builds your strength
and protects the intelligent
flame that leads to the
truth within.
We are born
under circumstances that
would be favourable if we did not
abandon them. It was nature’s intention
that there should be no need of great equipment
for a good life: every individual can make himself happy.
External goods are of trivial importance and without much influence
in either direction: prosperity does not elevate the sage and
adversity does not depress him. For he has always made
the effort to rely as much as possible on himself
and to derive all delight from
himself.
Venture
with love and
you win the battle.
Defend with love and you are
invulnerable. Heaven’s
secret is motherly
love.
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