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The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but is just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.
3
There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: impatience and laziness. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of laziness we cannot return. Perhaps, however, there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out, because of impatience we cannot return.
6
The decisive moment in human development is a continuous one. For this reason the revolutionary movements which declare everything before them to be null and void are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
10
A first sign of nascent knowledge is the desire for death. This life seems unendurable, any other unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wishing to die; one prays to be conducted from the old cell that one hates into a new one that one has yet to hate. There is in this a vestige of faith that during the change the Master may chance to walk along the corridor, contemplate the prisoner, and say: "You must not lock up this one again. He is to come to me."
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Like a road in autumn: Hardly is it swept clean before it is covered again with dead leaves.
13
A cage went in search of a bird.
15
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without ascending it, the work would have been permitted.
24
What is laid upon us is to accomplish the negative; the positive is already given.
25
Once we have granted accommodation to the Evil One he no longer demands that we should believe him.
The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but is just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.
3
There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: impatience and laziness. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of laziness we cannot return. Perhaps, however, there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out, because of impatience we cannot return.
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The decisive moment in human development is a continuous one. For this reason the revolutionary movements which declare everything before them to be null and void are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
10
A first sign of nascent knowledge is the desire for death. This life seems unendurable, any other unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wishing to die; one prays to be conducted from the old cell that one hates into a new one that one has yet to hate. There is in this a vestige of faith that during the change the Master may chance to walk along the corridor, contemplate the prisoner, and say: "You must not lock up this one again. He is to come to me."
12
Like a road in autumn: Hardly is it swept clean before it is covered again with dead leaves.
13
A cage went in search of a bird.
15
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without ascending it, the work would have been permitted.
24
What is laid upon us is to accomplish the negative; the positive is already given.
25
Once we have granted accommodation to the Evil One he no longer demands that we should believe him.
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