"Seek not the depths of your knowledge..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
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“You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.”
“The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly”
“Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.”
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“Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.”
“When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.”
“Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.”