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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If read more
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
[Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
[Sp., La mejor salsa del mundo es la hambre.]
They that die by famine die by inches.
They that die by famine die by inches.
Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.
Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
[Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]
Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go.
[Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit.]
With this there grows
In my most ill-compos'd affection such
A stanchless avarice that, were I King,
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With this there grows
In my most ill-compos'd affection such
A stanchless avarice that, were I King,
I should cut off the nobles for their lands,
Desire his jewels, and this other's house,
And my more-having would be as a sauce
To make me hunger more, that I should forge
Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,
Destroying them for wealth.
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
Hunger is sharper than the sword.
Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and the expression of energy associated with it.
Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and the expression of energy associated with it.
