Only the illimitable permanent is here. A peace stupendous, featureless, still replaces all, what once was I, in it a silent unnamed emptiness content either to fade in the unknowable or thrill with the luminous seas of the Infinite. Sri Aurobindo (1872 – 1950)
In this vision of things the universe will reveal itself in its unity and totality as a manifestation of a single being, nature as its power of manifestation, evolution as its process of gradual manifestation in matter. Sri Aurobindo (1872 – 1950)
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight. Marcus Aurelius (121 – 180)
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. Saint Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430)
God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined. Saint Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430)
You do not see God. Love and you possess him… for God offers himself to us at once. Love me, he cries to us, and you shall possess me. You cannot love me without possessing me. Saint Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430)
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds. Saint Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430)
It is right for us to be exhorted so to love wisdom that we most eargerly seek it as our treasure, acquire more and more of it, suffer many trials, restrain desires, ponder the future, so that we may preserve innocence and beneficence. Whenever we act in this way we are in possession of true virtues, because our objective is […]
O God, deliver me from the multitude of words within my own soul. Saint Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430)
Grace is not bestowed according to human merits; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. For grace is so designated because it is given gratuitously. Saint Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430)
