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Book of Psalms

By King David

תהילים‎

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Themes: Judaism

Quotes from Book of Psalms

“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”

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Themes: Integrity Karma

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“All men are liars.”

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Themes: Lies

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“All rivers run into the sea and yet the sea is not full.”

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Themes: Emptiness

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“As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower in the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.”

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Themes: Impermanence

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“Blessed are the man and the woman who have grown beyond their greed and have put an end to their hatred and no longer nourish illusions.”

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Themes: Greed Illusion

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“Each new dawn is a miracle; each new sky fills with beauty. Their testimony speaks to the whole world and reaches to the ends of the earth.”

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“Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil”

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Themes: Evil

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“Give me a bent for your words of wisdom, and not for piling up loot.”

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Themes: Wealth

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“How long will you love delusions and seek false gods”

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Themes: Delusion

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“I will not fear though tens of thousands assail me on every side… You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.”

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Themes: Fear

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“Let me keep surrendering my self until I am utterly transparent... Unnamable God, my essence, my origin, my life-blood, my home.”

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“Lord, my mind is not noisy with desires, and my heart has satisfied its longing. I do not care about religion or anything that is not you.”

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“Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for... surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.”

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Themes: Fear Evil

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“Who is the wise man? He who sees what’s going to be born.”

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“Your soul is nourished when you are kind, destroyed when you are cruel.”

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Themes: Kindness

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Quotes about Book of Psalms (4 quotes)

“To understand Hebrew scripture is not enough... we must transport ourselves into a distant land and an earlier age, and read it as the national poem of the Jews, a pastoral and agricultural people, written in ancient, simple, rustic, poetic, not philosophical or abstract language.”

Isaiah Berlin 1909 – 1997 CE
"the world's greatest talker"
from The Proper Study of Mankind

Themes: Judaism

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“All that miserable tale of the Devil and Eve, and an Intercessor with the childish mummeries of the God of the Jews, is irreconcilable with the knowledge of the stars.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822 CE

Themes: Judaism

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“The finest songs ever written, and immeasurably the most influential... never was religious feeling so powerfully or so beautifully expressed... No matter who wrote them, or when; there they are, the profoundest lyrics in literature, so vivid with ecstasy that even those who doubt all dogmas feel in the blood a strange response to their music.”

Will Durant 1885 – 1981 CE
Philosophy apostle and popularizer of history's lessons
from Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time, 1968

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“just like other great works of fiction, such as Don Quixote, War and Peace, and the Harry Potter books... much of the Bible may be fictional, but it can still bring joy to billions and can still encourage humans to be compassionate, courageous, and creative... billions of people have believed in these stories for thousands of years. Some fake news lasts forever.”

Yuval Harari יובל נח הררי‎ 1976 CE –
Israeli historian, professor, and philosopher

from 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

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