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To shame the guise o’ the world, I will begin
The fashion, less without and more within.
Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes:
Some falls are means the happier to arise.
Whoever we are, we find ourselves, through self-observation, possessed of a certain small number of typical ways of reacting to the manifold impressions of incoming life. These mechanical reactions govern us.
There are two futures, one in time and one in scale, one horizontal — the other vertical and always there, just above our present state.
When you feel you are right you may be sure you are asleep.
Everything lies in relationship, in how you relate yourself to things. You cannot change the thing itself but you can change your relationship to it.
When we look at the world through the veil of our desires we make it small and narrow, and fail to perceive its full truth.
To find life’s purpose we must go through the door of ourselves.
If you observe, you will see that there is an interval between two thoughts, between two emotions. In that interval, which is not the product of memory, there is an extraordinary freedom from the “me” and the “mine,” and that interval is timeless.
Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking ‘I’. And each time his ‘I’ is different. Just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man’s name is legion.
One Love it is that pervades the whole world, few there are who know it fully: They are blind who hope to see it by the light of reason, that reason which is the cause of separation.
When experience is complete, there is no residue — that is the beauty of life.
There are forces in you working upon you all the time to make you awaken, to heal you, to cure you — if you can only listen to them.
The opposites are thieves because what you build on one is undermined by the other. Or, to put it differently, joy leads to sorrow. But whatever is built in the centre cannot be taken from you.
Man’s sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder.
We are surrounded by a wall built of our conceptions of the world, and are unable to look over this wall at the real world.
The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea; And the treasure of your infinite depths would be revealed to your eyes. But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure; And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
She followed the firefly, which, like herself, was seeking the way out. If it did not know the way, it was yet light; and, because all light is one, any light may serve to guide to more light.
Everything that reaches us in the course of the day, and in the course of our whole life, is relative to us.
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.