Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart
"Looking For Your Own Face" as translated by Coleman Barks in The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia
“Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 7
Context: When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all. To see him you must see what he saw and when you are trying to see the vision of an insane man, an oblique route is the only way to come at it.
Slaying the Dragon Within Us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REjUkEj1O_0
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“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”
Source: Notebook
Lisa Heiserman Perkins NYTimes http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/science/01angier.html?_r=0
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“Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.”
Casus ubique valet; semper tibi pendeat hamus
Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit.
Book III, line 425
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
Source: Heroides
Context: Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Variant: When you see a man of worth, think of how you may emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine yourself.
