The Light of Asia Quotes

“Ye suffer from yourselves. None else compels,
None other holds you that ye live and die,
And whirl upon the wheel, and hug and kiss
Its spokes of agony,
Its tire of tears, its nave of nothingness.”
― Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia

“Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes,
Or any searcher know by mortal mind,
Veil after veil will lift--but there must be
Veil upon veil behind.”
― Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia

“Man hath no fate except past deeds,
No Hell but what he makes, no Heaven too high
For those to reach whose passions sleep subdued.”
― Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia

“insight vast

to spheres unnamed,

System on system, countless worlds and suns

Moving in splendid measures, band by band

Linked in division, one yet separate,

The silver islands of a sapphire sea

With waves which roll in restless tides of change.”
― Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia

“By wordless edict; having none to bid,

None to forbid; for this is past all gods

Immutable, unspeakable, supreme,

A Power which builds, unbuilds and builds again,”
― edwin arnold, The Light of Asia

“I TAKE MY REFUGE IN THY NAME AND THEE!
I TAKE MY REFUGE IN THY LAW OF GOOD!
I TAKE MY REFUGE IN THY ORDER! OM!
THE DEW IS ON THE LOTUS! - RISE, GREAT SUN!
AND LIFT MY LEAF AND MIX ME WITH THE WAVE
OM MANI PADME HUM, THE SUNRISE COMES!
THE DEWPROP SLIPS INTO THE SHINING SEA!”
― Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia

“If any teach NIRVÂNA is to cease,
Say unto such they lie.
If any teach NIRVÂNA is to live,
Say unto such they err.”
― Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia

“He goes
Unto NIRVÂNA. He is one with Life,
Yet lives not. He is blest, ceasing to be.
OM, MANI PADME, OM! the Dewprop slips
Into the shining sea!”
― Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia

“The daylight lingered past its time
In rose-leaf radiance on the watching peaks,
So it seemed Night listened in the glens
And Noon upon the mountains.”
― Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia

“There hath been a slaughter for the sacrifice
And slaying for the meat, but henceforth none
Shall spill the blood of life, nor taste of flesh,
Seeing that knowledge grows, and life is one,
And mercy cometh to the merciful.”
― Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia

“A great tree grows from two soft leaves
To spread its shade afar.”
― Edwin Arnold, The Light of Asia