When a man begins to know himself he is no longer a machine. He may, indeed, even become a man. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
Maurice Nicoll Quote – “If man were a unity instead of…”
If man were a unity instead of being a multiplicity, he would have true individuality. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
Maurice Nicoll Quote – “Mortal things are fatal to the flow of God…”
Mortal things are fatal to the flow of God. The spiritual man stands over all things of earth. The divine light reaches only the highest love. May my soul transcend my daily anxiety! The work of God is the noblest product. So my outward life is dead. Prayer, Sorrow, anxiety, do not redeem it. The highest love alone meets God. […]
Maurice Nicoll Quote – “Every further stage of ourselves is within us…”
Every further stage of ourselves is within us, above us. Below us lies what we are already, what we have done before. Below us, behind us, is the passive surrender to things, the inertia of the past, the habits of years, and the passive, sensual mind — the mind of the senses — with its sole belief in appearances and […]
Maurice Nicoll Quote – “A man must relate himself to new forces…”
A man must relate himself to new forces, coming from that which he has not realized, through seeing things differently, through touching ideas that have transforming power and that can only be proved by his own experience of them and never evidentially by an appeal to the outer world of the sense. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
Maurice Nicoll Quote – “The mystic ocean of existence…”
The mystic ocean of existence is not to be crossed as something outside ourselves. It is in oneself. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
Maurice Nicoll Quote – “Whatever forms Christianity assumed…”
Whatever forms Christianity assumed in later times, however distorted it became, it must be remembered that its introduction was heralded by John the Baptist preaching change of mind as the first step towards “eternal” life. And this change of mind was connected by him with the teaching on the Kingdom of Heaven — an idea so difficult to grasp and […]
Maurice Nicoll Quote – “There is a level above our ordinary level…”
We have no right to believe that our ordinary level of consciousness is the highest form of consciousness, or the sole mode of experience possible to man. We cannot say that the range of the internal experience of oneself is necessarily limited either to dream-states or to ordinary consciousness. We have to consider the possibility, not only that there is […]
Maurice Nicoll Quote – “Everything in a state of confusion…”
Everything is wrong in the world, everything in a state of confusion, because man has not this truth, and so remains unfinished. Maurice Nicoll (1884 – 1953)
Maurice Nicoll Quote – “Change of being is not a patchwork process…”
I imagined that unity of being could be reached within the customary state of consciousness. I believed, in other words, that a radical change of being could take place as one was, merely through some adjustments. This is probably what most of us think, for we do not realize that in order to change anything in ourselves everything else must […]
