Sublime me, Master Alchemist, Again, again And yet again In the cracked And sooty retort Of my own unwilling Skin. In your cruel, Impartial fires Bone and brain All vain desires, Vanity and inward blight Refine. Reform me Free of what obscures your Light. Transparent Make this vessel be So to embrace, Transmit and focus Your life-searing energy That so […]
What comfort, what strength, what economy there is in order — material order, intellectual order, moral order. To know where one is going and what one wishes — this is order; to keep one’s word and one’s engagements — again order; to have everything ready under one’s hand to be able to dispose of all one’s forces, and to have […]
When we are doing nothing in particular, it is then we are living through all our being… Will is suspended, but nature and time are always active, and if our life is no longer our work, the work goes on nonetheless. With us, without us, or in spite of us, our existence travels through its appointed phases. Henri Amiel (1821 […]
The being who has attained harmony, and every being may attain it, has found his place in the order of the universe and represents the divine thought as clearly as a flower or a solar system. Harmony seeks nothing outside itself. It is what it ought to be; it is the expression of right, order, law and truth; it is […]
Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Native American Tradition
In yourself lies the sweetness of your charm, from you does it blossom, in you it sojourns, within you it rests, in your own self you must search for the jubilant quality of your conscience. For that reason Solomon says, “Drink water out of your own cistern and the streams out of your own well.” Saint Ambrose (337 – 397)
Better is he that restrains his anger, as Solomon says, “than he that takes a city,” for anger leads astray even brave men. Saint Ambrose (337 – 397)
A soul also desires many kisses of the Word, so that she may be enlightened with the light of the knowledge of God. For this is the kiss of the Word, I mean the light of holy knowledge. Saint Ambrose (337 – 397)
If the world goes against truth, then Athanasius goes against the world. Athanasius of Alexandria (295 – 373)
If a man would find the Key of Knowledge, let him find himself. James Allen (1864 – 1912)
