More Wise Thoughts for Today

[yelladawg]

The man who is happy and pure
And likes his own company
Gathers the fruit of his practice
And the fruit of wisdom.

The man who knows the truth
Is never unhappy in the world.

For he alone fills the universe.

Just as the elephant loves
The leaves of the sallaki tree,
But not the neem tree,
So the man who loves himself
Always spurns the senses.

-Ashtavakra Gita 17:1-3
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A man's faith is not perfected till his mind is perfected.

- Ibn Gabirol, Mibhar HaPeninim