Inspiring Quotes ... The Empress
Quotes about The Empress, Binah & Tulip Gardens
Looking for a few great and inspiring quotes about The Empress card of the Tarot, her garden and the sephirah Binah? If so, these quotes and the ones in the Art Gallery 's online quote collection may help shed some light on the subject ...
Tarot Card: The Empress
Once the gre.At man sat under the bod'i tree {key 6},
He saw the morning star and was enlightened,
He sat there and ab.sol.u.te.ly beli.eve.d his eyes,
his ears, his nose, his tongue, his body, his mind.
- Seung Sahn (S/Zen master)
See all of this world {key 21}
As a star at dawn {key 3}, a bubble in a stream (lol),
A flash of lightening in a summer cloud {key 16},
A flickering lamp {key 9}, a phantom and a dream.
- Buddha in Diamond Suit.ra
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
- Epicurus
There is no better ruler than Wisdom, no safer guardian than Justice, no stronger sword than Righteousness, no surer ally than Truth.
- Mohammad
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
- James Oppenheim
Falling in love consists in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense[s].
- Helen Rowland
(put in key three waterfall and love)
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves.
- Victor Hugo
Love and the gentle heart are One, same thing.
- Dante
A bit of perfume always clings to the hand that gives the rose.
- Chinese proverb
When the rose is dead and teh garden ravaged, where shall we find the perfume of the rose?
In rose water ...
To the form worshippers, they are two;
when you have escaped from consciousness of the form, they are One.
While you regard the form, you are seeing double {key 25};
look, not at the eyes {key 15}, but at the light which flows from them.
- Rumi, Unity of Spirit
Inside the garden
I shall surely die.
Inside the rosebush
They will kill me.
Mother, Mother, I went out
Gathering roses,
But surely death will find me
In the Garden.
Mother, Mother, I went out
Cutting roses {key 13},
But surely death will find me
In the rosebush.
Inside the garden
I shall surely die.
In the rosebush
They will kill me.
- Garcia LorcaCritical Tasks
Perplext no more with Human or Divine,
To-morrow's tangle to the winds resign,
And lose your fingers in the tresses of
The Cypress — slender Minister of Wine.- Omar Khayyam (translation by by Edward FitzGerald)
It is woman's response to man that peoples the world with ideas.
- ancient wisdom
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Love turns ma into an ocean of happiness, an image of peace, a temple of wisdom. Love is every man's very Self, his true beauty, and the glory of his human existence.
- Swami Muktananda in Play of Consciousness (book)
Challenges
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (see Book: Giving Birth To Ideas)
Sephirot 3: Binah or Understanding
The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding.
- The Kybalion (book)
I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
To understand a man, you must know his memories. The same is true of a nation.
- Anthony Quale
I hear, I forget.
I see, I remember.
I do, I understand.
- Confucius
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
- Aristotle
Sel 3: The Door (Jin Shin Jyutsu)
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell
There was the Door to which I found no Key;
There was the Veil through which I might not see:
Some little talk awhile of Me and Thee
There was — and then no more of Thee and Me.- Omar Khayyam (translation by by Edward FitzGerald)
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
- Rose Lane
[Love is no difficulty ...] There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer. There is no disease that enough love will not heal. No door that enough love will not open. No gulf that enough love will not bridge. No wall that enough love will not throw down. And no sin that enough love will not redeem ... And if you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful person in the world.
- Emmet Fox
For more quotes about understanding, see Life Way 23: Understanding.
