The slave upon the rack who knows that he will be born again—perhaps as a fat merchant — if he suffers willingly—his outlook is not the same as that of a man with but one life to live. He can bear anything, knowing that great as his present pain may be, his future pleasure wil...
76. “No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”―Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes that will change the way you think 77. “All the good of nature is the soul’s, and may be had, if paid for in nature’s lawful coin, that is, by labor which the heart and...
the heart which is the most variable, the most inconstant of nature’s creations; two people, almost invariably ill-matched, were burdened with each other, bound together without recourse and without hope; it was like those tyrants who chained living men...
My clearest memory is of a Moon Festival day, at noontime, one of those rare occasions when we ate jiaozi at home, one bowl apiece. An aging beggar came to our door while we were at the table, and when I tried to send him away with half a bowlful of dried sweet potatoes, he rea...
of theBible, displaying that marvelous library as the imperfect work of fallible men.Then the deistic movement in England, reducing religion to a vague belief in aGod hardly distinguishable from nature. Then the growing ...
2 Peter 1:4 :“by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” Today’s Meditation:God’s promises are precious and great. However, many...
Anything that surpasses explanations of human agency gets covered by the gods. It is tempting to think of the gods as personifications of nature, and many of them are; but they are always much more than that. The gods as explanations of nature and natural events are one thing, something ...
On the other hand, the modern scientific study of suffering is mixed with ambivalent feelings, and there is a kind of apprehension regarding the man who suffers and his sociocultural order. Different perceptions of the study of suffering and its social consequences often determine the relationship ...
“Lüyi綠衣” is linked with the husband who suffers anguish at the death of his wife. Moreover, the song “Fengyu風雨” highlights a painful separation after marriage through the use of wind and rain imagery. In all the aforementioned pieces, the “wind” is deeply linked with distress, ...
of a fish. Now you have saved me by taking the form of a fish. Thank you, thank you!” (Martel267). God is Vishnu, God is Father, and God is Allah. God is also nature, and thus nature is God. Whatever you do in nature will have a resonance, because the God who is the ...