As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations to be induced to rise, but immediately shines and is greeted by all: so neither wait for applauses, and prate, to do good.
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.
The sun shines without demanding praise; let your being do the same.
The sun rises to banish darkness; let your awareness do the same.
I awoke from my sleep to find that all my masks had been stolen... and for the first time the sun kissed my naked face.
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that, it lights the whole sky.
The earth would die if the sun stopped kissing her. So too the soul withers without divine adoration.
Be like the sun that warms the palace and the hovel with the exact same radiant light.
The sun rises red in the morning and sets red in the evening; so too the truly noble remain unchanged in prosperity and in adversity.
The sun never boasts of its radiant warmth; it simply shines and warms the world.
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