It is useless to hear and not to experience, to be told and not to practice. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
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It is useless to hear and not to experience, to be told and not to practice. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
Where there are difficulties to cope with, and unsatisfactory conditions to overcome, there virtue most flourishes and manifests its glory. James Allen (1864 – 1912)
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. George Eliot (1819 – 1880)
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Khalil Gibran (1883 – 1931)
We know a lot about being in the wrong or right place externally, in space, but very little about being in the wrong or right place internally, in ourselves — and the latter is far more important. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
That which is within a man, not that which lies beyond his vision, is the main factor in what is about to befall him. George MacDonald (1824 – 1905)
From unreality lead me to the real, from darkness to the light, from death to immortality. Upanishads (circa 800 – 200 B.C.E.)
Most miserable Is the desire that’s glorious: blest be those, How mean soe’er, that have their honest wills, Which seasons comfort. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Come, come, and sit you down; you shall not budge; You go not till I set you up a glass Where you may see the inmost part of you. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
In the corrupted currents of this world Offence’s gilded hand may shove by justice; And oft ’tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law. But ’tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature; and we ourselves compell’d, Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence. […]