“The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.” MenSoulEnoughAgeCommonDestinyForeverMereWork OutGreat MenClayLooking ForwardFootprintFuture Work Book:Poems Source: Poems
“The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come.” WorldSoulMomentsStoriesDiesHeavenSoundDyingStudentsPrayingServantClimbsThat MomentRoofClayVesselPlaces In The WorldRabbiHuts Author:Jonathan Rosen
“Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by the reed of the scribe. As a fossil in the rock, or a coin in the mortar of a ruin, So the symbolled thoughts tell of a departed soul: The plastic hand hath its witness in a statue, and exactitude of vision in a picture, And so, the mind, that was among us, in its writings is embalmed.” WritingMindHeartSoulHandsEyeVisionRocksColdReaderEternalTongueRuinsWitnessPlasticCoinsFossilsClayStatuesEloquentReedsDepartedMortarScribesExactitudeDeparted Soul Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald
“O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.” KnowsWritingMadeSoulEndsSufferingTeachCreaturesDepthClayPotters Book:Spiritual Progress Source: Spiritual Progress