
As quoted in The Book of Unusual Quotations (1957) by Rudolf Franz Flesch, p. 122.
Source: Autobiography of a Yogi (1946), Ch. 34 : Materializing a Palace in the Himalayas
As quoted in The Book of Unusual Quotations (1957) by Rudolf Franz Flesch, p. 122.
“The pedant interprets the simplicity and the humility of the wise man as ignorance.”
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The Furrow (1986)
“I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant.”
My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)
“Kabîr says, "O Sadhu! God is the breath of all breath."”
Variant translation: Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside the breath
As translated by Stephen Mitchell in The Enlightened Heart (1993)
Songs of Kabîr (1915)
“Humility is a marvelous partner to joy. I hope you will discover the joy of serving others.”
Don Soderquist “ Live Learn Lead to Make a Difference https://books.google.com/books?id=s0q7mZf9oDkC&lpg=pg=PP1&dq=Don%20Soderquist&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false, Thomas Nelson, April 2006 p. 67.
On Keeping Humble
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
Raise their children honorably, lovingly and with detachment. A child is a guest in the house, to be loved and respected — never possessed, since he belongs to God. How wonderful, how sane, how beautifully difficult, and therefore true. The joy of responsibility for the first time in my life.
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955)
The Erasmus Reader (1990), p. 144.
Handbook of the Christian Soldier (1503)
“All my foundation in virtue was no other than a total ignorance of vice.”
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure