Just as gold does not exist in every stream searched, understanding is not present in all men. For the contents of a stream, seen or unseen, are gathered and posited there by operative forces.
— Papi Proverb 541
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To shed the temporal is to embrace death at the time proper, for it is love that gathers all things pure and eternal; therefore, it is love that ultimately causes death.
— Papi Proverb 491
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By the aide of the accumulative factors of wisdom and understanding will the wealth of true knowledge be expressed; the phenomena of birth either natural or spiritual does not secure knowledge, it merely sets in motion...
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The far reaches of knowledge make no genuine discovery except through the path of continuity.