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At the end of things, the blessed will say, “We have never lived anywhere except in Heaven.” And the lost will say, “We were always in Hell.” And both will speak truly.
It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
You’ve been walking the ocean’s edge,
holding up your robes to keep them dry.
You must dive naked under, and deeper under,
a thousand times deeper!
As the heart, so is the life. The within is ceaselessly becoming the without. Nothing remains unrevealed. That which is hidden is but for a time; it ripens and comes forth at last. Seed, tree, blossom, and fruit is the fourfold order of the universe. From the state of a man’s heart proceed the conditions of his life; his thoughts blossom into deeds, and his deeds bear the fruitage of character and destiny.
The Formless is in the midst of all forms.
When a man begins to know himself he is no longer a machine. He may, indeed, even become a man.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?
So do Thou my Lord,
Thou and I never apart,
Wave of the sea dissolve in the sea,
I am the bubble, make me the sea,
Oh I am the bubble, make me the sea.
The endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
To repel one’s cross is to make it heavier.
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
What to ourselves in passion we propose,
The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
The violence of either grief or joy
Their own enactures with themselves destroy:
Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament;
Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.
I do believe you think what now you speak;
But what we do determine oft we break.
Purpose is but the slave to memory.
Give me that man
That is not passion’s slave,
and I will wear him
In my heart’s core,
ay, in my heart of heart,
As I do thee.
The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
