You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
1 Thessalonians 5:5
Kinsman
…do not harden your heart and shut your hand against your needy kinsman.
Deuteronomy 15:7
Attention
As for he who thinks himself without need, to him you give attention.
Qur’an Surah Abasa Ayat 5-6
Fire
The heart is like light. Fire is called light because it shines on things.
The Shundai Zatsuwa by Kyusō, Book Two – Righteousness, The Fleeting, Dream-Like World, Verse 10
Virtues
Only two virtues are enough; why should the good stand in need of many? Anger lived like a lightning flash and friendship enduring like a line inscribed on a rock.
Vajjalagam 42
Understanding
Heaven is forever and is not to be understood at once, like the promises of men.
The Shundai Zatsuwa by Kyusō, Book Two – Righteousness The Victory of Heaven and Man, p.68
Purity
Listen to the benefits of holy company: thereby is cast off impurity.
Adi Granth, Bilaval, M.5, p. 809
Return
Aim for restoration, comfort one another…
2 Corinthians 13:11
Wrongdoing
If you persist in your wrongdoing, both you and your king shall be swept away.
I Samuel 12:25
Overpower
Repel evil with that which is better.
Qur’an Surah al Mu’minun 96
Tranquility
When this entire world is regarded as concatenation, as nothing else but concatenation, then the mind gains tranquility.
Lankavatara Sutra 78
Principles
Though [most men] read books they are in the dark as to principles, and with open eyes they are blind in heart.
The Shundai Zatsuwa by Kyusō, Book One – Benevolence, The Blind of Heart, Verse 26
Garden
This earth is a garden, the Lord its gardener, cherishing all, none neglected.
Adi Granth, Mahj Ashtpadi 1, M.3, p. 118
Destiny
Do not let man destroy Nature. Do not let cleverness destroy destiny [the natural order].
Chuang Tzu 17
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