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• [Ethics-Postponement] He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
- Horace
• Someone who practices only bhakti yoga is like a blind man who cannot see where to go, and in his enthusiasm wanders off in the wrong direction. Someone who practices only gnana yoga, on the other hand, is like a lame man who can see the distant destination but, because his knowldge remains only theoretical, makes no progress towards it. However, if the love and energy of the bhakta is combined with the wisdom and discrimination of the gnani, seekers
are sure to reach their destination.
- Hindu teaching story
• I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
– Rumi
• In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity,
we know our friends.
- John Churton Collins
• [TRUE FRIENDSHIP] The bonds that good men
share, like good bound books, Reveal new enjoyments at each new encounter. The object of friendship is not merrymaking But a stern rebuking when friends go astray. It is not constant meeting and companionship But mutual sensibilities that confer the alliance of
friendship.
Friendship is not seen on a friendly face, But felt deep within a friendly heart.
-Tirukkural, 79:783-86 351
