CARDS 31-40

Card Nr. 31:

«Não há progresso que não seja acompanhado por uma regressão. Ou, mais sucintamente: no Universo, a soma das forças permanece constante.»

Ernst Jünger, "Drogas, Embriaguez e Outros Temas"

Card Nr. 32:

«Once you’re able to admit nothingness, you’re able to reach fullness.»

LC


Card Nr. 33:

«The ego does not like the Truth.»

LC


Card Nr. 34:

«Alcança-se a certeza quando se abandona todas as certezas.»

LC


Card Nr. 35:

«The doctrine of the highest science, called magic by the ancients, being no longer recognised in our days by official science, can only be presented to it under the name of Paradoxes, a word which signifies things above reason.»

Éliphas Lévi, "The Paradoxes of the Highest Science"


Card Nr. 36:

«Is our need to remain heedful of the principle that an injurious act, sooner or later, will bring us an injurious retribution.»

Hsu Yun, "The Empty Cloud"


Card Nr. 37:

«Therefore, do thou always perform actions which are obligatory, without attachment;—by performing action without attachment, one attains to the highest.»

Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita


Card Nr. 38:

«Whose undertakings are all devoid of plan and desire for results, and whose actions are burnt by the fire of knowledge, him, the sages call wise.»

Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita


Card Nr. 39:

«Free from pride and delusion, with the evil of attachment conquered, ever dwelling in the Self, with desires completely receded, liberated from the pairs of opposites known as pleasure and pain, the undeluded reach that Goal Eternal.»

Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita


Card Nr. 40:

«The sage puts his own person last, and yet it is found in the foremost place; he treats his person as if it were foreign to him, and yet that person is preserved.»

Tao Te Ching