| 3. | Wretched are the poor in spirit, for under the earth they shall be what they now are upon the earth. |
| 4. | Wretched are they that mourn, for they already have the miserable habit of mourning. |
| 5. | Fortunate are they that know that suffering is not a crown of glory. |
| 6. | It sufficeth not to be the last in order to someday be the first. |
| 7. | Happy are they that do not insist they are right, for no man is or all men are. |
| 8. | Happy are they that forgive others and they that forgive themselves. |
| 9. | Blessed are the meek, for they do not condescend to disagreement. |
| 10. | Blessed are they that do not hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they know that our fortune, adverse or merciful, is a matter of chance, which is inscrutable. |
| 11. | Blessed are the merciful, for their happiness lies in the exercise of mercy and not in the hope of a reward. |
| 12. | Blessed are the pure in heart, for they see God. |
| 13. | Blessed are they that suffer persecution for the sake of righteousness, for righteousness matters more to them than their human destiny. |
| 14. | Nobody is the salt of the earth; no one, at some moment in life, is not the salt of the earth. |
| 15. | Let thy light so shine, even if men cannot see it. God shall see it. |
| 16. | There is no commandment which cannot be broken, neither those that I say nor those that the prophets have said. |
| 17. | He that kills for a just cause, or for a cause which he believes just, is guiltless. |
| 18. | The acts of men deserve neither hell fire nor heaven. |
| 19. | Hate not thine enemy, for upon doing so, thou art in some way his slave. Thy hate shall never be better than thy peace. |
| 20. | If thy right hand offend thee, forgive it; thou art thy body and thou art thy soul and it is difficult, if not impossible, to determine the boundary that divides them... |
| 24. | Exaggerate not the cult of truth; there is no man that at the end of the day has not lied with good reason many times. |
| 25. | Swear not, for all swearing is an emphasis. |
| 26. | Resist evil, but without awe or anger. To whomsoever smite thee on thy right cheek, thou mayest turn the other also, as long as thou art not moved by fear. |
| 27. | I speak not of vengeance nor of forgiveness; to forget is the only vengeance and the only forgiveness. |
| 28. | Doing good to thine enemies can be an act of righteousness and it is not difficult; loving them, a task for angels and not for men. |
| 29. | Doing good to thine enemies is the best way to placate thy vanity. |
| 30. | Lay not up gold upon earth, because gold is the father of idleness, and the latter, of sadness and of boredom. |
| 31. | Judge that others are or shall be righteous, and if they are not, it is not thy error. |
| 32. | God is more generous than men and shall mete to them with a different measure. |
| 33. | Give that which is holy to dogs, cast thy pearls before swine; what is most important is to give. |
| 34. | Seek for the pleasure of seeking, not for that of finding... |
| 39. | The gate is the one that chooses, not the man. |
| 40. | Judge not a tree by its fruits, neither a man by his works; they could be better or worse. |
| 41. | Nothing is built upon the rock, everything upon the sand, but our duty is to build as though the sand were rock... |
| 47. | Happy are the poor without bitterness or the rich without pride. |
| 48. | Happy are the valiant, they that accept with equal spirit failure or applause. |
| 49. | Happy are they that retain in their memory the words of Virgil or Christ, for these shall give light to their days. |
| 50. | Happy are they that are loved and they that love and they that can do without love. |
| 51. | Happy are the happy. |
Fragments of an Apocryphal Gospel
Jorge Luis Borges
Translated by Mark D Larsen
http://vis-si-realitate-2.blogspot.ro/April 23, 2008 |









8 comments:
deosebit de frumoase fotografiile tale - fiecare imagine transmite o anumita emotie. Multumesc! ♥
Impresionante fotografiile !
happy W.W. !
Rich post. Thank you
ALOHA
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The photographs which show both people and the structure are, to me, a blend of the ordinary (people) with something exquisitely beautiful, hauntingly mystical and unexplainably mysterious. I suppose that is what happens when people encounter religion.
The photographs which show only the structure are art revealing art. Simply breathtaking, Daliana.
The gospels, I will leave for others.
Foarte frumoase si inedite unghiuri ale fotografiilor.
Se potrivesc cu interiorul inalt al unei biserici.
O zi minunata sa ai!
Superbe toate! :)
Minunate fotografiile !
Such a magnificent church.
great photos.
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