Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Interpretation
Humility is the foundation from which all positive qualities and virtues grow.
This quote by Thomas Moore suggests that humility is an essential quality that nurtures and supports the development of all other virtuous traits. By likening humility to a 'low, sweet root,' Moore emphasizes its understated yet vital role in fostering kindness, generosity, and other heavenly virtues that enrich our lives and those around us.
In practice
During a team meeting, one might say, 'As Thomas Moore said, 'Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot,' to emphasize the importance of being humble in our collaborative efforts.
When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.
How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
At 11, I could say βI am sodiumβ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.
You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.
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