Mikhail Naimy Quotes

#1. How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.

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#2. Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

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#3. So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.

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#4. Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion.

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#5. Be steady. Make ready. Keep your eyes, and ears, and tongues on fast so that your hearts may know that holy hunger which, once appeased, leaves you forever full. You

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#6. Too vast is Man and too imponderable his nature. Too varied are his
talents, and too inexhaustible his strength. Beware of those who
attempt to set him boundaries.Live as if your God Himself had need of
you His life to live. And so, in truth, He does.

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#7. Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.

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#8. Less possessing-less possessed.
More possessing-more possessed.
More possessed-less accessed.
Less possessed-more accessed.

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#9. No love is Love that subjugates the Lover.
No love is Love that feeds on flesh and blood.
No love is Love that draws a woman to a man only to breed
more women and men and thus perpetuate their bondage to the flesh.

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#10. Men and women yearners must realize their unity even while in the
flesh; not by communion of the flesh, but by the Will to Freedom from
the flesh and all the impediments it places in their way to perfect
Unity and Holy Understanding

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#11. To feed on death is to become food for death. To live by other's pain is to become a prey for pain. So has decreed the omni-will. Know that and choose your course !

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#12. Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.

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#13. When Love gives, it gives all; when it takes, it takes all. It's very taking is giving.

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#14. How easy it is to mock, how hard it is to understand! Yet mockery has ever mocked the mocker.

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#15. Love neither lends nor borrows; Love neither buys nor sells; but when it gives, it gives it s all; and when it takes, it takes its all. Its very taking is a giving. Its very giving is a taking. Therefore is it the same to-day, to-morrow and forevermore.

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#16. Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.

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#17. All is a riddle to the man who trails a shadow. For that man walks in borrowed light, therefore he stumbles on his shadow.

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#18. Whoever cannot find a temple in his heart, the same can never find his heart in any temple.

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#19. Your breath upon the wind shall surely lodge within some breast. Ask not whose breast it is. See only that the breath itself be pure.

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#20. Take care that you hold not your priceless life so cheap as gold.

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#21. The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face.

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#22. As you die continually when living. So do you live continually when dead; if not in this body, then in a body of another form..

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#23. If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful maze, it is because you are that woeful maze.

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