“The branch might seem like the fruit's origin:
In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit.”
Mathnawi
Teachings of Rumi (1999)
The Independent (12 May 1991)
“The branch might seem like the fruit's origin:
In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit.”
Mathnawi
Teachings of Rumi (1999)
Nakayama Miki (1798–1887) Founder of Tenrikyo
Anecdotes of Oyasama, Foundress of Tenrikyo, from Anecdote 158, "Monthly Period is the Flower," p. 128.
Anecdotes of Oyasama
E. Lockhart book The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
September 20, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
“It seems there is no fruit to be drawn from the solution we offer.”
Évariste Galois (1811–1832) French mathematician, founder of group theory
citation needed
Il parait après cela qu'il n'y a aucun fruit à tirer de la solution que nous proposons.
Willie Dixon (1915–1992) American blues musician
I am the Blues: the Willie Dixon Story (with Don Snowden, 1990), p. 4.
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet
Indian Spirituality and Life (1919)
Context: To the Indian mind the least important part of religion is its dogma; the religious spirit matters, not the theological credo. On the contrary to the Western mind a fixed intellectual belief is the most important part of a cult; it is its core of meaning, it is the thing that distinguishes it from others. For it is its formulated beliefs that make it either a true or a false religion, according as it agrees or does not agree with the credo of its critic. This notion, however foolish and shallow, is a necessary consequence of the Western idea which falsely supposes that intellectual truth is the highest verity and, even, that there is no other. The Indian religious thinker knows that all the highest eternal verities are truths of the spirit. The supreme truths are neither the rigid conclusions of logical reasoning nor the affirmations of credal statement, but fruits of the soul's inner experience. Intellectual truth is only one of the doors to the outer precincts of the temple. And since intellectual truth turned towards the Infinite must be in its very nature many-sided and not narrowly one, the most varying intellectual beliefs can be equally true because they mirror different facets of the Infinite. However separated by intellectual distance, they still form so many side-entrances which admit the mind to some faint ray from a supreme Light. There are no true and false religions, but rather all religions are true in their own way and degree. Each is one of the thousand paths to the One Eternal.
“To me, our destinies seem flower and fruit
Born of an ever-generating root…”
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
Life Without and Life Within (1859), The One In All