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You cannot think about yourself and be yourself at the same time.
You are not broken… you’re just disconnected from the Divine.
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book or a friend, or, best of all, in your own thoughts — the eternal thought speaking in your thought.
The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.
Let love be your guide and you will always find what you’re looking for.
There isn’t a thought large enough to hold what the heart knows without thinking.
You will win because God has already won.
People go crazy because it is a convenient defense against going sane.
A quiet mind knows the answer, which means we must cease to fight anxiously for the answer.
His eyes can read men’s inmost hearts, and all the art of hypocrites cannot decide him. His sharp discernment sees things clear and true.
There are false heroes and false devotees; and as true heroes never are the ones who make much noise about their deeds of honor, just so true devotees, whom we should follow, are not the ones who make so much vain show. What! Will you find no difference between hypocrisy and genuine devotion?
The bees visit the flowers here and there, but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjoram: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.
I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own. I would be rich of myself, and not by borrowing.
We learn to love the light by seeing clearly what the darkness does to us.
Wrong action in the past is corrected perfectly by right action in the present.
If two angels were sent down from heaven — one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street — they would feel no inclination to change employments.
Do they cast us out of the city? They cannot cast us out of that which is in the heavens. If they who hate us could do this, they would be doing something real against us. So long, however, as they cannot do this, they are but pelting us with drops of water or striking us with the wind.
Truth does not hurt. Rather, it is our resistance to its message that causes pain.
The entire secret of real happiness is contained in the following truth: I am not my memories about myself.
When admitting, “I just don’t know the answer,” you are doing something far more profound than you think. You place yourself at the foot of the stairs that leads upward to a world far higher than the intellect. When saying, “I just don’t know the answer,” you are coming to an end of the self-conceit and self-deceit that occupies the level of the intellect. You have qualified yourself for leaving the self-centered world and approaching the lofty universal world.
