“They in whom this holy flame has been awakened live in true happiness.”

Last updated on: June 10, 2015 at 5:21 am by Annie Mueller

“They in whom this holy flame has been awakened live in true happiness.” 2015-06-02T07:14:59-05:00 Annie Mueller

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Letter to Menoeceus

Epicurus

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old.

For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. And to say that the season for studying philosophy has not yet come, or that it is past and gone, is like saying that the season for happiness is not yet or that it is now no more.

Therefore, both old and young ought to seek wisdom, the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

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The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary

by Karl Von Eckartshausen

He in whom this holy flame has been awakened lives in true happiness, content with everything and in everything free.

He sees the cause of human corruption and knows that it is inevitable.

He hates no criminal, he pities him, and seeks to raise him who has fallen, and to restore the wanderer, because he feels notwithstanding all the corruption, in the whole there is no taint.

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Rig Veda: Book 1, HYMN XXV, Varuṇa.

14 The God whom enemies threaten not, nor those who tyrannize o’er men,
Nor those whose minds are bent on wrong.
15 He who gives glory to mankind, not glory that is incomplete,
To our own bodies giving it.
16 Yearning for the wide-seeing One, my thoughts move onward unto him,
As kine unto their pastures move.

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20 Thou, O wise God, art Lord of all, thou art the King of earth and heaven
Hear, as thou goest on thy way.
21 Release us from the upper bond, untie the bond between, and loose
The bonds below, that I may live.

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