“When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
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“When you recognize the Beauty, you will also recognize the Beloved and fall in love with Him.”
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 270
The First Revelation, Chapter 5
Context: It needeth us to have knowing of the littleness of creatures and to hold as nought all-thing that is made, for to love and have God that is unmade. For this is the cause why we be not all in ease of heart and soul: that we seek here rest in those things that are so little, wherein is no rest, and know not our God that is All-mighty, All-wise, All-good. For He is the Very Rest. God willeth to be known, and it pleaseth Him that we rest in Him; for all that is beneath Him sufficeth not us. And this is the cause why that no soul is rested till it is made nought as to all things that are made. When it is willingly made nought, for love, to have Him that is all, then is it able to receive spiritual rest.
"A Leader to Repose", p. 101.
Poetry of the Orient, 1865 edition
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
These are paraphrases of Muir's quote from My First Summer in the Sierra (1911) - the actual quote is listed above: "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." See Sierra Club explanation http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/misquotes.aspx.
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Variant: Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.
Variant: When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.
He expressed anguish in a poetic form when he found the hunter killing the male dove with his arrow.
Source: Ramayana translated by William Buck in: Ramayana https://books.google.co.in/books?id=vvuIp2kqIkMC&pg=PA7, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1 January 2000, p. 7.
“The little things are what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.”
Las pequeñeces son lo eterno, y lo demás. todo lo demás, lo breve, lo muy breve
Voces (1943)
“Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven,
Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest.”
Act V, scene 2.
The Spanish Friar (1681)