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  • NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.

    Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.84, Courier Corporation
  • They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth.

    Poison   Wealth   Nectar  
  • I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that moment a happiness filled me that was pure and perfect and yet it was bled with despair - as if I had been handed a cup of ambrosial nectar to drink from and knew that once I finished drinking, the cup would be withdrawn forever, and nothing to come would ever taste as good.

    Drinking   Cat   Perfect  
  • Raki is bad enough, but it's nectar compared with pulque.

    Enough   Nectar  
    Fergus Hume (2016). “FERGUS HUME - The Ultimate Mystery Collection: 21 Thriller Novels in One Volume: The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, Red Money, The Bishop’s Secret, The Pagan’s Cup, A Coin of Edward VII, The Secret Passage, The Green Mummy, A Woman's Burden, The Crowned Skull, Hagar of the Pawn-Shop…”, p.611, e-artnow
  • Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar.

    Sweet   Memories   Real  
    Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.219, Harper Collins
  • The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

  • So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive.

    Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.33, University of Toronto Press
  • News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they are) when they are buzzing in search of their particular nectar.

    Ideas   News   Bees  
    George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.393, Penguin
  • The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.

    Poetry   Speak   Nectar  
  • Be surprised at nothing. Let peace and stillness flood through you and envelop you completely in its cloak. Put on the whole armor of love - and yet feel, feel very deeply. Let tears flow, washing away impurities until you feel clean within and clean without. Become like an empty vessel ready to be filled with life's nectar.

  • She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox’s tongue. She tastes like hope.

    Stars   Apples   Swans  
    Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.79, Hachette UK
  • Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.

    Prayer   Powerful   Tears  
  • The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death.

    Shining   Tears   Toil  
    Martial (1871). “The Epigrams of Martial”, p.192
  • As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

    Wise   Flower   Moving  
  • Chanting is a significant and mysterious practice. It is the highest nectar, a tonic that fully nourishes our inner being. Chanting opens the heart and makes love flow within us. It releases such intoxicating inner bliss and enthusiastic splendor, that simply through the nectar it generates, we can enter the abode of the Self.

    Heart   Self   Practice  
  • On Saturday mornings I would walk to the Flavor Cup or Puerto Rico Importing coffee store to get my coffee. Often it was freshly roasted and the beans were still warm. Coffee was my nectar and my ambrosia: I was very careful about it. I decanted my beans into glass...and I ground them in little batches in my grinder.

  • Grant that I have enough suffering that my heart really opens to the great compassion of this world, that I be given enough so that I don't wall myself off from the world, that it breaks down the heart and the separation and the ego and the fear, and it lets me touch the nectar, the milk of kindness itself, of something greater.

    Wall   Kindness   Heart  
  • Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.

    Spring   Roots   Age  
    Dante Alighieri (1982). “Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings”, p.252, Univ of California Press
  • Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.

    Taken   Medicine   Drunk  
  • This world is a bitter tree, it has only two sweet nectar like fruits - one is soft voice and the other is company of gentlemen.

    Sweet   Two   Voice  
  • The word is the Guru, The Guru is the Word, For all nectar is enshrined in the world Blessed is the word which reveal the Lord's name But more is the one who knows by the Guru's grace.

    Blessed   Names   Grace  
  • Internalize the vagrant mind and fix it in the Lord. Then the meditation will be profound and intense. Don't open the eyes. Don't move from the seat. Melt yourself down into Him. Dive in the deep corners of your heart. Get immerse in the brilliant Atman. Drink the nectar of Immortality. Now enjoy the silence. Son of the nectar! Rejoice! Peace! Silence! Glory!

    Moving   Heart   Eye  
  • England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.

    Idols   Skulls   Progress  
    "The Future Results of British Rule in India," New York Daily Tribune, August 8, 1853.
  • The nectar of compassion is so wonderful. If you are committed to keeping it alive, then you are protected. What the other person says will not touch off the anger and irritation in you, because compassion is the real antidote to anger. Nothing can heal anger except compassion. That is why the practice of compassion is a very wonderful practice.

    Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.85, Penguin
  • Laughter is a symptom of spirituality. Laughter is the flow of love coursing through your body. Laughter is the nectar of present moment awareness. Invite more laughter into your life and relish the magic in every moment.

    Laughter   Magic   Body  
  • In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His precious children. Then go throughout the day with your heart full of faith and love, looking for someone to help. Stay focused, just like the honeybees focus on the flowers from which to gather nectar and pollen. If you do this, your spiritual sensitivities will be enlarged and you will discover opportunities to serve that you never before realized were possible.

    FaceBook post by M Russell Ballard from Aug 07, 2014
  • Who knew that all this time the nectar of the Gods was in my va-jay-jay.

    Nectar  
    Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.282, Macmillan
  • I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

    Heart   Rose   Cups  
  • Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.

  • I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

    Flower   Book   Honey  
    "Summit of the years".
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