“Whoever has found the world and become enriched, let him renounce the world.”
Thomas the Apostle Apostle of Jesus Christ
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Gospel of Thomas (c. 50? — c. 140?)
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Gospel of Thomas (c. 50? — c. 140?)
“Whoever has found the world and become enriched, let him renounce the world.”
Thomas the Apostle Apostle of Jesus Christ
110
Gospel of Thomas (c. 50? — c. 140?)
“Whoever has found the solution cannot find me.”
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Saviors of God
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: Cries rise up on every side. Who shouts? It is we who shout — the living, the dead, and the unborn. But at once we are crushed by fear, and we fall silent.
And then we forget — out of laziness, out of habit, out of cowardice. But suddenly the Cry tears at our entrails once more, like an eagle.
For the Cry is not outside us, it does not come from a great distance that we may escape it. It sits in the center of our hearts, and cries out.
God shouts: "Burn your houses! I am coming! Whoever has a house cannot receive me!
"Burn your ideas, smash your thoughts! Whoever has found the solution cannot find me."
“In this world
love has no color
yet how deeply
my body
is stained by yours.”
Izumi Shikibu Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
Source: Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Variant: I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things.
Source: The Alchemist
John the Evangelist (10–98) author of the Gospel of John; traditionally identified with John the Apostle of Jesus, John of Patmos (author o…
1 John 3:17,18 http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/b/r1/lp-e/nwt/E/2013/62/3#dcv_3_17, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures <br class="br">First Letter of John
“Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.”
Dean Acheson (1893–1971) Statesman and lawyer
Speech at West Point (5 December 1962), in Vital Speeches, January 1, 1963, page 163.
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 4, hadith number 588
Sunni Hadith
“That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it.”
Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929) Filmmaker and comics writer
Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
“Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary